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  • 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.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Truth Quotes , History Quotes
  • Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they have noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Truth Quotes , Simple Quotes
  • By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our history now arrives on the confines, where daylight and truth meet us with a clear dawn, representing to our view, though at a far distance, true colours and shapes.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : John Milton Quotes , Dream Quotes , Truth Quotes
  • An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Truth Quotes , Lying Quotes