“You want the truth, of course. You want me to put two and two together. But two and two doesn’t necessarily get you the truth. Two and two equals a voice outside the window. Two and two equals the wind. The living bird is not its labeled bones.”
Source: The Blind Assassin
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David L. Norton (1930–1995) American philosopher
Source: Personal Destinies: A Philosophy of Ethical Individualism (1976), p. 7
“The formula 'two plus two equals five' is not without its attractions.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky book Notes from Underground
Part 1, Chapter 9 (page 31)
Notes from Underground (1864)
Bill Clinton (1946) 42nd President of the United States
To Webster Hubbell during his interview for Attorney General, 1992, according to Hubbell's book Friends in High Places (1997) http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2843/is_n2_v22/ai_20562397/ <br class="br">Attributed
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
Conversation on Epictetus and Montaigne
Context: These two states which it is necessary to know together in order to see the whole truth, being known separately, lead necessarily to one of these two vices, pride or indolence, in which all men are invariably led before grace, since if they do not remain in their disorders through laxity, they forsake them through vanity, so true is that which you have just repeated to me from St. Augustine, and which I find to a great extent; for in fact homage is rendered to them in many ways.
Example (musician) (1982) English rapper and singer
"Two Lives" (song) <br class="br"> ("Two Lives", Official video on YouTube)) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn60dbD0CsE <br class="br"> (+ "Two Lives", a lyrics version on YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLKlbUZYd_o <br class="br">Studio albums, Won't Go Quietly (2010)
“The truth between two people always cuts two ways.”
Diana Wynne Jones book Fire and Hemlock
Source: Fire and Hemlock
