An Old Man's Thoughts on Many Things, Of Education I
Proverbia http://www.proverbia.net/citasautor.asp?autor=93
Nam nec historia debet egredi veritatem, et honeste factis veritas sufficit.
Letter 33, 10.
Letters, Book VII
“I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.”
Source: Self-Reliance
Letter to Samuel "Sam" Chapman (June 1907)
Context: The South went to war on account of slavery. South Carolina went to war, as she said in her secession proclamation, because slavery would not be secure under Lincoln. South Carolina ought to know what was the cause for her seceding. The truth is the modern Virginians departed from the teachings of the Father's.
Source: Reasons and Persons (1984), p. 619
This means ‘Artistic Integrity’ to me.
Talkings about Chopin and Schumann
“The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.”
As paraphrased in The Great Quotations (1960) by George Seldes, p. 460; this paraphrase has for some time become the most widely quoted form of Madison's statement.
1780s, The Debates in the Federal Convention (1787)
Light (1919), Ch. XIX - Ghosts
Context: The truth is that the love of mankind is a single season among so many others. The truth is that we have within us something much more mortal than we are, and that it is this, all the same, which is all-important. Therefore we survive very much longer than we live. There are things we think we know and which yet are secrets. Do we really know what we believe? We believe in miracles. We make great efforts to struggle, to go mad. We should like to let all our good deserts be seen. We fancy that we are exceptions and that something supernatural is going to come along. But the quiet peace of the truth fixes us. The impossible becomes again the impossible. We are as silent as silence itself.
Logik und Ethik aber sind im Grunde nur eines und das-selbe.
Pflicht gegen sich selbst. Sie feiern ihre Vereinigung im höchsten Werte der Wahrheit...
Source: Sex and Character (1903), p. 159.
