#truth

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego. ↗

— Northrop Frye

#beauty #because #dangerous #ego #goodness

It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#energy #error #existence #her #love

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#dreamer #dreaming #his #must #only

If we were to abandon concern for what is true, what is false, and what remains indeterminate, the world would be totally chaotic. Even those who deny the importance of truth, on the one hand, are quick to jump on anyone who is caught lying. ↗

— Howard Gardner

#anyone #caught #chaotic #concern #deny

Paul's the writer. Yeah, I wrote a little of that stuff, but that's just technically true. In spirit, and in essence of the truth, it doesn't matter. So I don't know, maybe I'm being foolish for not being technical. Yeah, I wrote a certain portion of the things. ↗

— Art Garfunkel

#certain #essence #foolish #i #just

He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it. ↗

— Henry George

#asking #him #proclaim #sees #truth

Prior to that I produced a couple of TV movies for CBS, but the truth of the matter is that I burned out for a couple of years. I didn't do anything for a while, apart from taking up golf, for which I got a four handicap. ↗

— Gil Gerard

#apart #burned #cbs #couple #four

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#absolute truth #allowed #content #him #latitude

Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#been #circumstances #creating #enjoy #find

My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#along #between #could #find #found