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.

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Great is truth, and strongest of all.

Great is truth, and strongest of all.

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know read more

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.

Thought is action in rehearsal

Thought is action in rehearsal

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you read more

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at read more

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.