#truths

I've thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was on the Comics Pages. They were able to pull off intelligent social comment, pure truths not found elsewhere in the news pages, and had the ability to make it all funny, entertaining, and pertinent. ↗

— Elayne Boosler

#able #actual #comics #comment #decade

There are some truths to some of the stories, but a lot of it isn't - you just have got to let it go. ↗

— Charlotte Church

#got #just #lot #some #stories

If you can help other people understand those truths - and in my mind, the only way I know to do that is with large scale, multi-year research projects, where you start with a question and then very rigorously and comprehensively answer that question. ↗

— James Collins

#help #i #know #large #large scale

When you took a man's job away from him, his ability to feed and clothe his family, that man was going to get angry. ↗

— Darrin Grimwood

#hard-times #hard-truths #industrialisation #job-losses #jobless

In the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as a truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were the truths and they were all beautiful. [...] There was the truth of virginity and the truth of passion, the truth of wealth and of poverty, of thrift and of profligacy, of carelessness and abandon. Hundreds and hundreds were the truths and they were all beautiful. And then the people came along. Each as he appeared snatched up one of the truths and some who were quite strong snatched up a dozen of them. It was the truths that made the people grotesques. The old man had quite an elaborate theory concerning the matter. It was his notion that the moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it his truth, and tried to live his life by it, he became a grotesque and the truth he embraced became a falsehood. ↗

— Sherwood Anderson

#grotesque #truth #truths #beauty

It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those men get lost. ↗

— Black Elk

#change

WHETHER IT'S A CHILD'S TOY OR A NATION'S OIL, IT'S ALL THE SAME, the Red Rider said. YOU FIGHT FOR WHAT YOU WANT. AGGRESSION. IT'S THE SPICE OF LIFE. War was right: people had to fight for what they wanted. Or maybe balance, as Famine has said -- strength matched with temperance. No, she thought. Not balance, Control. IT'S ALWAYS ABOUT CONTROL, War agreed merrily. [as in the meaning of why wars happen] ↗

— Jackie Kessler

#human-nature #truths #life

The ancient Greeks have a knack of wrapping truths in myths. ↗

— George Lloyd

#ancient greeks #greeks #knack #myths #truths

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing. ↗

— Elizabeth Goudge

#basic #first #hearing #life #most

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#eternal #facts #truths