#rut

If a church offers no truth that is not available in the general culture - in, for instance, the editorials of the New York Times or, for that matter, of National Review - there is not much reason to pay it attention. ↗

— Richard John Neuhaus

#available #church #culture #editorials #general

All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth. ↗

— Wally Lamb

#honesty #inspirational #lies #strength #truth

We have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even strange to us that such a notion could ever have existed. ↗

— James Newman

#could #even #ever #existed #existence

I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. ↗

— Isaac Newton

#boy #diverting #finding #great #i

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me. ↗

— Isaac Newton

#beach #before #child #i #i am

Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we truly grow as people. ↗

— Jen Knox

#artist #empathy #life #philosophy #truth

I absolutely refuse the fame part of my business. I refuse even the money side of my business. I try to do as good work as I can do, I try to grow in my art and reach for truth. That's what I want from my art, that's what I aspire to. ↗

— Connie Nielsen

#art #aspire #business #even #fame

So a truthful assessment of how America is doing in the war on terror as a result of President Bush's war on Iraq is that we have been set back by decades. ↗

— John Olver

#assessment #back #been #bush #decades

I look at the human sciences as poetic sciences in which there is no objectivity, and I see film as not being objective, and cinema verite as a cinema of lies that depends on the art of telling yourself lies. If you’re a good storyteller then the lie is more true than reality, and if you’re a bad one, the truth is worse than a half lie. ↗

— Jean Rouch

#fiction #lies #reality #truth #art

Pretty woman, I don't believe you, you're not the truth. No one could look as good as you, mercy. ↗

— Roy Orbison

#could #good #i #look #mercy