#truth

Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#kindlehighlight #knowledge #manipulation #propoganda #truth

Facta! Yes, Facta ficta! - A historian has to do, not with what actually happened, but only with events supposed to have happened: for only the latter have produced an effect. Likewise only with supposed heroes. His theme, so-called world history, is opinions about supposed actions and their supposed motives, which in turn give rise to further opinions and actions, the reality of which is however at once vaporised again and produces an effect only as vapour - a continual generation and pregnancy of phantoms over the impentetrable mist of unfathomable reality. All historians speak of things which have never existed except in imagination. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#imagination

Love, he told himself, was open to interpretation like any other abstract indulgence but followed the same principles everywhere, irrespective of everything else. One, either won or lost in love, there was no bridge in between, and he decided he had lost, lost to himself, if not to her. ↗

— Faraaz Kazi

#sad #sad-love #tragic #truth #love

The truth is, I don't have a real clue what love is - how to find it, how to give it. Once upon a time I thought I knew. ↗

— Ellen Hopkins

#truth #love

You should tell the truth as often as you can, but in such a way as people don't believe you or think that you're being funny. ↗

— Auberon Waugh

#funny

I Take Life Very Seriously: One Joke At A Time. ↗

— Sandra Chami Kassis

#life #philosophy #quotes #truth #wisdom-inspirational

The only thing a boyfriend has good for was a shattered heart ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#truth-of-life #funny

He who destroys a good book, kills reason itself. ↗

— John Milton

#honesty #john-milton #random #reason #truth

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it--else it is none. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#love

There is some relationship between the hunger for truth and the search for the right words. This struggle may be ultimately indefinable and even undecidable, but one damn well knows it when one sees it. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#language #literary-criticism #literature #truth #literary-criticism