James Branch Cabell (1879–1958) American author
Coth, in Book Four : Coth at Porutsa, Ch. XXVI : The Realist in Defeat
The Silver Stallion (1926)
“It is the human condition to question one god after another, one appearance after another, or better, one apparition after another, always pursuing the truth of the imagination, which is not the same as the truth of appearance.”
— Alain
Introduction
The Gods (1934)
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Harold Rosenberg (1906–1978) American writer and art critic
"The American Action Painters" (1952) in Art News 51/8, Dec. 1952, p. 22; then published in Tradition of the New, 1959.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India
1940s, To Every Briton (1940)
Context: This is no appeal made by a man who does not know his business. I have been practising with scientific precision non-violence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years. I have applied it in every walk of life, domestic, institutional, economic and political. I know of no single case in which it has failed. Where it has seemed sometimes to have failed, I have ascribed it to my imperfections. I claim no perfection for my self. But I do claim to be a passionate seeker after Truth, which is but another name for God. In the course of the search the discovery of non-violence came to me. Its spread is my life-mission. I have no interest in living except for the prosecution of that mission.
“Behind one truth there is always yet another.”
Lloyd Alexander book The Iron Ring
Source: The Iron Ring
“Whenever an authority disappears, another one appears; and if a star sets, another one rises.”
Muhammad al-Mahdi (869–941) 12th and last Imam in Twelver Shia Islam
Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.53 p. 185
General Quotes
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician
Propylaea (1798) Introduction
“One question always leads to another question. Some things are better to wonder about.”
Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden
Source: Black Blood
“The truth is never taken
From another.
One carries it always
By oneself.
Katsu!”
Tetto Giko (1295–1369)
Japanese Death Poems. Compiled by Yoel Hoffmann. ISBN 978-0-8048-3179-6
“We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.”
Saepe aliud volumus, aliud optamus, et verum ne dis quidem dicimus.
Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist
Source: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XCV: On the usefulness of basic principles, Line 2.
