“So clearly will truths kindle light for truths.”
Book I, line 1117 (tr. W. H. D. Rouse and M. F. Smith)
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)
Original
Ita res accendent lumina rebus.
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Lucretius 45
Roman poet and philosopher -94–-55 BCRelated quotes
“Truth is the light
So you never give up the fight.”
Final jamming of Live at the Roxy (recorded 1976)
Song lyrics
“There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart.”
"Great Thought" (19 February 1938), published in The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler (1976)
Context: There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Neither is independent of the other or more important than the other. Without art, science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science, art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery. The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.
As quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, both Ancient and Modern (1908) by Tyron Edwards, p. 592
“If our so-called facts are changing shadows, they are shadows cast by the light of constant truth.”
Science and the Unseen World (1929)
Context: If our so-called facts are changing shadows, they are shadows cast by the light of constant truth. So too in religion we are repelled by that confident theological doctrine... but we need not turn aside from the measure of light that comes into our experience showing us a Way through the unseen world.<!--IX, p.91
“Not every light is a true light;
To the wise the light of truth is light itself.”
Verse XXX.9
Tirukkural
Trial and Interrogation (1637)
“The truth sometimes not sought for comes forth to the light.”
The Girl Who Gets Flogged, fragment 422.
“When the truth cannot be clearly made out, what is false is increased through fear.”
Ubi explorari vera non possunt, falsa per metum augentur.
IV, 10, 10.
Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, Book IV