Aristotle Quotes, Truth Quotes, History Quotes

A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.

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No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.

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The quest of Truth involves tapas-self-suffering-sometimes even unto death.

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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

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My experience teaches me that truth can never be propagated by doing violence.

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There are three things that cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon and the truth.

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The gentleman is a man of truth.

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Science is but an image of the truth.

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All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

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Receive, dear friend, the truths I teach, So shalt thou live beyond the reach Of adverse Fortune's pow'r; Not always tempt the distant deep, Nor always timorously creep Along the treach'rous shore.

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

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Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak.

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The woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy; Of old the world on dreaming fed Gray Truth is now her painted toy.

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Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,- The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.

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A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

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Could truth perhaps be a woman who has reasons for not permitting her reasons to be seen? Could her name perhaps be--to speak Greek--Baubo?... Oh, those Greeks! They understood how to live: to do that it is necessary to stop bravely at the surface, the fold, the skin, to adore the appearance, to believe in forms, in tones, in words, in the whole Olympus of appearance! Those Greeks were superficial--out of profundity!

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I am not at all concerned with appearing to be consistent. In my pursuit after Truth I have discarded many ideas and learnt many new things.

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Truth is God, and truth overrides all our plans.

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Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?

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