Quotes 761 till 780 of 1376.
-
Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.
-
Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.
-
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.
-
Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality. There used to be another name for this state of mind. It used to be called psychosis.
-
Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.
-
Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.
-
Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind; neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power.
-
Proverbs are alsvys platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
-
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
-
Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.
-
Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.
-
Rape is an outrage that cannot be tolerated in a civilized society. Yet feminism, which has waged a crusade for rape to be taken more seriously, has put young women in danger by hiding the truth about sex from them.
Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992) -
Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Brown's trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention.
-
Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
-
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
-
Reclaiming the word 'fat' was the most empowering step in my progress. I stopped using it for insult or degradation and instead replaced it with truth, because the truth is that I am fat, and that's ok. So now when someone calls me fat, I agree, whereas before I would get embarrassed and emotional.
-
Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
-
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
All half-truth famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 39)
