“Layla’s story, though not always accurate, was far more interesting than the truth.”
Lisa Goldstein book A Mask for the General
Source: A Mask for the General (1987), Chapter 12 (p. 214)
Original: Il tempo rivela sempre la verità sugli eventi accaduti: il vero processo della storia e in modo accurato, molto accurato l'anima ed il cuore di ogni persona.
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“Layla’s story, though not always accurate, was far more interesting than the truth.”
Lisa Goldstein book A Mask for the General
Source: A Mask for the General (1987), Chapter 12 (p. 214)
Coretta Scott King (1927–2006) American author, activist, and civil rights leader. Wife of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Address at Georgia State University (15 February 2000)
“All photos are accurate. None of them is the truth. ”
Richard Avedon (1923–2004) American photographer
“Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events.”
William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist
Lecture VI, Pragmatism's Conception of Truth
1900s, Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (1907)
Context: Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verity is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its verifying itself, its veri-fication. Its validity is the process of its valid-ation.
“My dame, sing for this person accurate songs.”
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract
Viktor Schauberger (1885–1958) austrian philosopher and inventor
Implosion Magazine, No. 14, p. 19 (Callum Coats: Energy Evolution (2000))
Implosion Magazine
Jean-Baptiste Say (1767–1832) French economist and businessman
Source: A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition) (1832), Introduction, p. xix
“A person's true nature is revealed at times of the greatest adversity.”
Daisaku Ikeda (1928) Japanese writer