1 decade ago in Quotes
There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
"War and Peace"
 1 decade ago in Quotes
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
 1 decade ago in Quotes
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
 1 decade ago in Quotes
These aliens, these made-up worlds
of ours, are ways of making
mysteries mundane.
We see beauty and think
it truth.
Man's measure grips the world,
chokes meaning from it.

But you can't escape cages by studying their bars.
Laws prison licence
in slow spaces, snagged time.
So the best of science or of crafty fictive lies
presses us into true darkness,
away from the lamppost.
Beware of the snaky swoop of integrals.
Math's mad arabesques can conceal far
more than they reveal.
It's strangeness we must seek, not
more urns so Greek,
with their Pythagorean certainties.
We must live in the jagged outlands,
knowing truth may not fit snugly,
can be ugly,
and all our own.
"Bleak Velocities"
Tagstruth
 1 decade ago in Quotes
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.
 1 decade ago in Quotes
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
 1 decade ago in Quotes
Only the free have disposition to be truthful, 

Only the truthful have the interest to be just,
Only the just possess the will-power to be free.
 1 decade ago in Quotes
There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
 1 decade ago in Quotes
Freedom is the right to say two plus two make four. If granted, all else follows.
 1 decade ago in Quotes
Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
 1 decade ago in Quotes
True words aren't charming,
Charming words aren't true.
People who know aren't learned,
Learned people don't know.