#truth

A DEAD STATESMAN I could not dig: I dared not rob: Therefore I lied to please the mob. Now all my lies are proved untrue And I must face the men I slew. What tale shall serve me here among Mine angry and defrauded young? from EPITAPHS OF THE WAR 1914-18 ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#deceit #dishonesty #irony #lies #politics

Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own. Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality. ↗

— James Cameron

#inspirational #ted #truth #art

I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It dont move about from place to place and it dont change from time to time. You cant corrupt it any more than you can salt salt. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#change

It is necessary to choose: if you wish to be an empiricist, you must abandon the hope of founding scientific knowledge on a solid and certain basis; if you wish to have a solidly established science, you must place it under the protection of the idea of Necessity and, in addition, recognize this idea as primordial, original, having no beginning and consequently no end - that is to say, you must endow it with the superiorities and qualities that men generally accord to the S ↗

— Lev Shestov

#empiricism #science #truth #men

There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#money

The secret of high finance...if you really need a loan, you won't qualify. And if you don't need a loan, all the lenders will line up to give you money. ↗

— Joanne Fluke

#money

It doesn't matter who said it, as long as it changed you. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#change #quotes #sayings #transformation #truth

Art indeed may not change anything, and yet on some very basic level, life is insupportable without it. ↗

— Richard Matturro

#beauty #culture #life #meaning #spiritual

The only truth is music. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#truth #music

I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true ↗