#rut

We reach in desperation beyond the fog, beyond the very stars, the voids of the universe are ransacked to justify the monster, and stamped with a human face. London is religions opportunity--not the decorous religion of theologians, but an anthropomorphic, crude. Yes, the continuous flow would be tolerable if a man of our own sort--not anyone pompous or tearful--were caring for us up in the sky. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#life #religion #truth #religion

Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#leads #nothing #premature #scientist #truth

It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#blatant #draw #error #sometimes #truths

There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#enough #extremely #hated #little #low

When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#any #appear #current #day #error

be the beast that's inside you or become the ghost that's behind you ↗

— life solitude love truth

#love #solitude #truth #life

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes. ↗

— Joseph Roux

#poetry #sunday #truth

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#caution #great #must #terrible #terrible thing

The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgement free. ↗