
“You've got to say what you say / Don't let anybody get in your way”
Roll With It
(What's the Story) Morning Glory? (1995)
“You've got to say what you say / Don't let anybody get in your way”
Roll With It
(What's the Story) Morning Glory? (1995)
“You can't let facts get in the way of the truth.”
Source: NOS4A2
“Be very, very careful not to let the facts get mixed up with the truth.”
“The educated don't get that way by memorizing facts; they get that way by respecting them.”
The Well-Spoken Thesaurus (2011)
"Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool," Polemic (March 1947)
Context: A normal human being does not want the Kingdom of Heaven: he wants life on earth to continue. This is not solely because he is "weak," "sinful" and anxious for a "good time." Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise. Ultimately it is the Christian attitude which is self-interested and hedonistic, since the aim is always to get away from the painful struggle of earthly life and find eternal peace in some kind of Heaven or Nirvana. The humanist attitude is that the struggle must continue and that death is the price of life.
Il n'y a pour les choses et pour les poèmes qu'une seule manière d'être nouveaux, c'est d'être vrais et qu'une seule manière d'être jeunes, c'est d'être éternels.
Positions et propositions (Paris: Gallimard, 1928) p. 16; John O'Connor (trans.) Ways and Crossways (London: Sheed & Ward, 1935) p. 49.