#truth

For the artist, the goal of the painting or musical composition is not to convey literal truth, but an aspect of a universal truth that if successful, will continue to move and to touch people even as contexts, societies and cultures change. For the scientist, the goal of a theory is to convey "truth for now"--to replace an old truth, while accepting that someday this theory, too, will ve replaced by a new "truth," because that is the way science advances. ↗

— Daniel J. Levitin

#science #truth #change

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#committing #find #let us #like #live

Nietzsche believed in heroes and, in his youth, he was a hero worshipper. First Arthur Schopenhauer's bespectacled visage stared from his shrine and after that the place of sacredness and honor was held by Richard Wagner. When the Wagner of the philosopher's dreams turned into a Wagner of very prosaic flesh and blood, there came a time of doubt and stress and suffering for poor Nietzsche. But he had courage as well as loyalty, and in the end he dashed his idol to pieces and crunched the bits underfoot. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#hero-worship #truth #courage

The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation. ↗

— Stella Adler

#created #life #people #situation #social

Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Legislator. In most modern scientists this belief has died: it will be interesting to see how long their confidence in uniformity survives it. Two significant developments have already appeared—the hypothesis of a lawless sub-nature, and the surrender of the claim that science is true. We may be living nearer than we suppose to the end of the Scientific Age. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#science #skepticism #truth #age

We the people have no excuse for starry-eyed sycophantic group-think in the Information Age. Knowledge is but a fingertip away. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#information-age #internet #knowledge #politics #truth

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#honor #integrity #moral-courage #obligation #truth

Stupid dreams.Even the good ones are bad because they remind you how porly reality measures up. ↗

— Neal Shusterman

#dreams

One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#life #resilience #truth #age

I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people. ↗

— Ruby Wax

#employ #fat #i #myself #never