the truth is, I am heartily sick of this life & of the nineteenth century in general. (I am convinced that every thing is going wrong. )
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.
It seems that truth is progressive approximation in which the relative fraction of our spontaneously tolerated residual error constantly diminishes.
Total truth is necessary. You must live by what you say.
Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful. Here the aesthetic coincides with the ethical.
A novel which persuades us of its truth is true however full of lies it may be
You get so used to lying that after a while it's hard to remember what the truth is.
The truth is, we never make for others the allowance we make for ourselves; and we should deny even our own words, could we hear them spoken by another.
Well, the truth is always what should be told. And the truth and the knowledge of the truth is what everybody should represent, regardless of the consequences of doing it.
In a thing, they can create a pretext coined hundreds of excuses , but the truth is only one.
Everything is a gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is a measure of our gratefullness, and gratefullness is a measure of our aliveness.
Of the things I know to be true in life, right at the top of the list of irrefutable truths is, "No one ever listens to anyone. " It might even be No. 1.
The truth is the truth. What changes is what we know about it and what we're willing to believe.
The truth is always more heroic than the hype.
Truth is what most contradicts itself.
We become obsessed with 'truth' when discussing statements, just as we become obsessed with 'freedom' when discussing conduct. . . Like freedom, truth is a bare minimum or an illusory ideal.
God’s truth is this: abortion is murder.
Poor Petey. I’d like to say I could almost feel a tender spot for poor Petey, but the truth is I’d rather feel at the tender spot on his head and give it a poke.
Capitalism, in the realm of sexuality, I figure, thinks that we behave in specific ways, like a breast is always going to produce a hard-on for some product, whereas the truth is that sexuality is always a continuum, which can be characterized by reversals.
The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.
