#rut

True art is thoughtful, emotional examination of how human themes impact the overall experience of existing. The rest is kitsch. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#artist #existence #experience #humanity #life

What you've called "manipulated truth". All truth is manipulated, because the universe is chaotic. What we divine from it is the superimposition of some kind of order, whether it's religion, superstition, story and art, literature, science - all of them are an attempt to keep the wolf from the door. And that wolf is chaos. ↗

— -Unknown

#truth #art

And now I feel like crying, because I really do not understand, and I don't think I will when I'm older either. It was only when I loved Franz I understood the world, and felt happy. When you love, you're praying. Everything was quite clear. I wanted to be good. I think you begin things the right way when you want to be good. And I think I'm doing everything wrong now because all I want is for people to be good to me. I want to be loved, everybody wants to be loved; for a thousand people who want to be loved there may perhaps be just one who wants to love. Our Father which art in heaven...my heart is all a lump of grief. ↗

— Irmgard Keun

#art

And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#philosophy #truth #nature

Nothing in this world is hidden forever. The gold which has lain for centuries unsuspected in the ground, reveals itself one day on the surface. Sand turns traitor, and betrays the footstep that has passed over it; water gives back to the tell-tale surface the body that has been drowned. Fire itself leaves the confession, in ashes, of the substance consumed in it. Hate breaks its prison-secrecy in the thoughts, through the doorway of the eyes; and Love finds the Judas who betrays it by a kiss. Look where we will, the inevitable law of revelation is one of the laws of nature: the lasting preservation of a secret is a miracle which the world has never yet seen. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#revelation #secrets #truth #love

Truth is naturally universal...and shines into many different windows, though many are clouded. ↗

— Anya Seton

#nature

In wine, there's truth. ↗

— Pliny the Elder

#wine #nature

To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle. ↗

— George Orwell

#truth #courage

Each of us is shaped by the truth of our natures. Von to Silver ↗

— Adrian Phoenix

#insight #truth #nature

Bizim hepimizin içinde zübüklük olmasa, bizler de birer zübük olmasak, aramızdan böyle zübükler büyüyemezdi. Hepimizde birer parça olan zübüklük birleşip işte başımıza böyle zübükler çıkıyor. Oysa zübüklük bizde, bizim içimizde. Onları biz, kendi zübüklüğümüzden yaratıyoruz. Sonra, kendi zübüklüklerimizin bir tek Zübük’de birleştiğini görünce ona kızıyoruz. Bu zübükler heryerde var, biz zübükler nerde varsak, onlar da orada... ↗

— Aziz Nesin

#humor #stupidity #truth #humor