#truths

The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind. ↗

— Francis Wright

#been #difficult #error #fixed #formed

You love your work. God help you, you love it! And thats the curse. That's the brand on your forehead for all of them to see. You love it and they know it, and they know they have you. Do you ever look at the people in the street? Aren't you afraid of them? I am. They move past you and they wear hats and they carry bundles. But that's not the substance of them. The substance of them is hatred for any man who loves his work. That's the only kind they fear. I don't know why ↗

— Ayn Rand

#creativity #individuality #life-truths #the-fountainhead #art

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

Official truths are often powerful illusions. ↗

— John Pilger

#official #often #powerful #truths

It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times. ↗

— Thomas Reed

#becomes #before #leads #life #lonely

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

— Elizabeth Goudge

#basic #first #hearing #life #most

Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy. ↗

— Tom Hayden

#avoid #centrist #controversies #democrats #distance

All great truths begin as blasphemies. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#great #truths

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#eternal #facts #truths

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#last #mankind #resort #then #truths