“The dignity of history consists in reciting events with truth and accuracy, and in presenting human agents and their actions in an interesting and instructive form. The first element in history, therefore, is truthfulness; and this truthfulness must be displayed in a concrete form.”
The Dignity and Importance of History http://www.dartmouth.edu/~dwebster/speeches/dignity-history.html (23 February 1852)
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Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 133.
Nam nec historia debet egredi veritatem, et honeste factis veritas sufficit.
Letter 33, 10.
Letters, Book VII
“Truth does not consist in minute accuracy of detail; but in conveying a right impression.”
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 603.
“The truth is that history constantly presents new problems in the guise of old.”
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“We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.”
Remarks at Amherst College (26 October 1963)
1963
“There is the truth of history, and there is the truth of what a person remembers.”
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“There is no truth without the form of truth, namely justice.”
Source: Love, Power and Justice (1954), p. 21
Notes, 1962; as cited on collected quotes on the website of Gerhard Richter: 'on Art' https://www.gerhard-richter.com/en/quotes/art-1
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