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What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim read more
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup. -Boris Pasternak.
If one tells the truth, one is sure sooner or later to be found out
If one tells the truth, one is sure sooner or later to be found out
Truth is often attended with danger.
[Lat., Pericula veritati saepe contigua.]
Truth is often attended with danger.
[Lat., Pericula veritati saepe contigua.]
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
Like the sun, truth is self luminescent.
It is reality, self evident, needing no external defense.
It is immediately recognized read more
Like the sun, truth is self luminescent.
It is reality, self evident, needing no external defense.
It is immediately recognized by resonant hearts.
It can be hidden for a short time by clouds
or by imprisoning others indoors..
but inevitably truth conquers all,
as does love.
God whose name is Truth whose name is Love is ending
the violence in the world now.
If it is not true it is very well invented.
[It., Se non e vero, e molto ben trovato.]
If it is not true it is very well invented.
[It., Se non e vero, e molto ben trovato.]
Nobody dies nowadays of fatal truths: there are too many antidotes to them.
Nobody dies nowadays of fatal truths: there are too many antidotes to them.
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
