“The truth displayed in a good life is the fairest of images.”

Reflections for Ragamuffins: Daily Devotions from the Writings of Brennan Manning https://books.google.com/books?id=Gxv208Eit_4C&amp;pg=PT322 (1998), p. 22 <br class="br">1990s

The Bell (1958), ch. 9; 2001, p. 119.

Source: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

How to Understand Politics: What the Humanities Can Say to Science (2007)
Context: Literature... seeks to entertain — and why is this?... The reason, fundamentally, is that literature knows something that science does not: the human resistance to hearing the truth. Science does not inform scientists of this basic fact.... The wisdom of literature arises mainly from its attention to this point. To overcome the resistance to truth, literature makes use of fictions that are images of truth.

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Seventh Son (1987), Chapter 10.

Sutherland's futuristic vision sounds just like Star Trek’s holodeck!
Digital Da Vinci: Computers in the Arts and Sciences, 2014

The Dignity and Importance of History http://www.dartmouth.edu/~dwebster/speeches/dignity-history.html (23 February 1852)

World War Z
Context: Attack. When I first heard that word, my gut reaction was, "oh shit". Does that surprise you? Of course it does. You probably expected "the brass" to be just champing at that bit, all that blood and guts, "hold 'em by the nose while we kick 'em in the ass" crap. I don't know who created the stereotype hard-charging, dim-witted, high school football coach of a general officer. Maybe it was Hollywood, or the civilian press, or maybe we did it to ourselves, by allowing those insipid, egocentric clowns- the MacArthurs and Halseys and Curtis E. LeMays- to define our image to the rest of the country. Point is, that's the image of those in uniform, and it couldn't be further from the truth.