#truths

He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#growing-up #innocence #life #loss-of-innocence #truths

After all, your head only had so much room in it. No surprise if it overflowed once in a while with little bits of sparkle and electrical fizz. ↗

— Jean Thompson

#home

Life's most obvious truths are the hardest to see but once you've burned everything to the ground they are the only things left standing. André Chevalier ↗

— Nikki Sex

#life-philosophy #truths #life

The difference between a house and a home is like the difference between a man and a woman-- it might be embarrassing to explain, but it would be very unusual to get them confused. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#truths #men

We should show life neither as it is, nor as it should be, but as we see it in our dreams. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#dreams

It is a truth universally acknowledge that there will always be a gentleman to dance with, except at just the moment when you require one most. ↗

— Anna Godbersen

#gentlemen #paraphrased #universal-truths #envy

You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#existed #knew #know #learn #never

Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#comforting #confronting #conservatives #fairy #fairy tales

The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#must #number #proportionate #soul #truths

To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject. ↗

— Edmund Husserl

#any #closed #closed system #cognitive #correspond