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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Albert Einstein— p. 83 - letter to Adrianna Enriques, Oct 1921
We have erased segregation in those areas of national life to which Federal authority clearly extends. So doing in this, my friends, we have neither sought nor claimed partisan credit, and all such actions are nothing more -- nothing less than the rendering of justice. And we have always been aware of this great truth: the final battle against intolerance is to be fought -- not in the chambers of any legislature -- but in the hearts of men.
— Address at the Hollywood Bowl (19 October 1956).
Honour belongs to those who never forsake the truth even when things seem dark & grim, who try over & over again, who are never discouraged by insults, humiliation & even defeat.
nelson mandela
I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.
john brown— Letter to his children on the eve of his execution, 2 Dec. 1859.
CIRCA aims to make clowning dangerous again, to bring it back to the street, restore its disobedience and give it back the social function it once had: its ability to disrupt, critique and heal society. Since the beginning of time tricksters (the mythological origin or all clowns) have embraced life's paradoxes , creating coherence through confusion adding disorder to the world in order to expose its lies and speak the truth.
— CIRCA official site : Rebel Clowning : What is it?
In the end, Mothers are always right. No one else tells the truth.
Randy Susan Meyers— The Murderer's Daughters (2010, pg. 13)
truth is the light, so you never give up the fight.
bob marley— Final jamming of Live at the Roxy (recorded 1976)
The truth is always the strongest argument.
Sophocles— Fragment 737.
The fact is that the truth of harmony and human brotherhood derives not from an absorbed trance but from an awakened prajñâ or wisdom; and its validity depends not on any dramatic ecstatic visions but it belongs to man’s (…) natural reason unspoilt by theologies of exclusiveness.
ram swarup— Ram Swarup: Ramakrishna Mission, p.13.
It is now necessary to face the truth and to acknowledge against all prejudices that the struggle that the Albanian tribe is leading today is a natural and unavoidable historic struggle for a different political life than that experienced under Turkish rule – different also from that which its neighbours Serbia, Greece and Montenegro would like to force upon the Albanians.
dimitrije tucović— Review of "Serbia and Albania" by Dimitrije Tucovic
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
khalil gibran— Children of Gods, Scions of Apes
I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
jesus christ— John 14:6.
Time , beneath whose influence the pyramids moulder into dust, and the flinty rocks decay, does not and cannot destroy a fact , nor strip a truth of one portion of its essential importance.
— Anonymous statement, quoted in The Homilist; or, The pulpit for the People (1873) edited by David Thomas, p. 55.
If the truth were a palpable object, it would be a modeling clay.
— André Dahmer, in the Brazilian webcomic Malvados
What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and; anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding.
friedrich nietzsche— Friedrich Nietzsche, On truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense.
Since the beginning of time tricksters (the mythological origin of all clowns ) have embraced life's paradoxes, creating coherence through confusion adding disorder to the world in order to expose its lies and speak the truth .
— Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army (CIRCA) official site : Rebel Clowning : What is it?
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
otto von bismarck— Otto von Bismarck (born 1 April 1815, and All Fools Day), as quoted in American Speaker : Your Guide to Successful Speaking (1992) by Aram Bakshian.
CIRCA aims to make clowning dangerous again, to bring it back to the street, restore its disobedience and give it back the social function it once had: its ability to disrupt, critique and heal society. Since the beginning of time tricksters (the mythological origin of all clowns) have embraced life's paradoxes , creating coherence through confusion adding disorder to the world in order to expose its lies and speak the truth .
— CIRCA site page : Rebel Clowning : What is it?
“truth is a perilous commodity,” Julian admitted, “but so is ignorance, Adam more so.”
robert charles wilson— p. 200 (Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009))
The bird of truth would not be able to fly if it weren't for the air of lies we breathe.
eugene j. martin— from E.J. Martin's website at [3]
An exquisite invention this, Worthy of Love's most honeyed kiss, This art of writing billet-doux In buds, and odors, and bright hues! In saying all one feels and thinks In clever daffodils and pinks; In puns of tulips; and in phrases, Charming for their truth, of daisies.
leigh hunt— Love-Letters Made of Flowers
A deliberate rejection of duty prescribed by already recognized truth cannot but destroy, or at least impair most seriously the clearness of our mental vision.
— Henry Liddon, p. 201. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
thomas jefferson
Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being’s entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign... you must weep that your own government, at present, seems blind to this truth.
— Mother Teresa, in her amicus brief filed before the U.S. Supreme Court in the cases of Loce v. New Jersey and Krail et al. v. New Jersey in February 1994.
