“Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.”
Source: Essays: First Series
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Ralph Waldo Emerson727
American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803–1882Related quotes
“There is one river of truth, which receives tributaries from every side.”
Clement of Alexandria book Stromata
Stromata (Miscellanies, c. 198–203 AD), I: 5.
Variant: Variant translation: There is one river of truth, but many streams fall into it on this side and that.
“There are two sides to every question.”
Protagoras (-486–-411 BC) pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
As quoted in Lives of Eminent Philosophers, by Diogenes Laërtius, Book IX, Sec. 51
[Robert Evans, 2002, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0303353, The Kid Stays in the Picture, Documentary, Highway Films]
The unreliable narrator
“…letters of a burning book
dance in flame not every time
and not every time literally.”
Anatoly Kudryavitsky (1954) a Russian/Irish novelist, poet, literary translator and magazine editor
Poems, Shadow of Time (2005)
“Love is on every side, and no one's side. Don't ask what Love can do for you.”
Rick Riordan book The House of Hades
Source: The House of Hades
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Quotation and Originality
Source: Prose and Poetry
“There's a humorous side to every situation. The challenge is to find it.”
George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian