#now

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#always #anything #known #only #something

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#analogy #art #commentary #criticism #even

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away. ↗

— Sophocles

#flung #good #hands #hold #ignorant

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession. ↗

— Sophocles

#any #better #friend #how #kindness

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day. ↗

— Sophocles

#deed #going #ground #i #i see

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth. ↗

— Sophocles

#help #how #knowledge #truth

Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him. ↗

— Sophocles

#end #event #him #know #many

Not even old age knows how to love death. ↗

— Sophocles

#death #even #how #knows #love

How can one know anything at all about people? ↗

— Anna Freud

#anything #how #know #people

This is our lance. See, you're making me laugh about this now, because there have been a few jokes on the set about what they actually look like. But, see, I personally think they'd be a great toy. So... just batteries aren't included. ↗

— Kevin Sorbo

#actually #batteries #because #been #few