Herbert Spencer (1820–1903) English philosopher, biologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist
Pt. I, The Unknowable; Ch. I, Religion and Science; quoting from "There is some soul of goodness in things evil / Would men observingly distil it out", William Shakespeare, Henry V, act iv. sc. i
First Principles (1862)
U.G. Krishnamurti book Mind is a Myth
Source: Mind is a Myth (1987), Ch. 1: The Certainty That Blasts Everything
C. Terry Warner American writer
Source: Bonds That Make Us Free: Healing Our Relationships, Coming to Ourselves
“When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.”
Robert Greene book The Art of Seduction
Source: The Art of Seduction
“Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.”
John Steinbeck (1902–1968) American writer
Cheryl Strayed book Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense (1873)
Context: We produce these representations in and from ourselves with the same necessity with which the spider spins. If we are forced to comprehend all things only under these forms, then it ceases to be amazing that in all things we actually comprehend nothing but these forms. For they must all bear within themselves the laws of number, and it is precisely number which is most astonishing in things. All that conformity to law, which impresses us so much in the movement of the stars and in chemical processes, coincides at bottom with those properties which we bring to things. Thus it is we who impress ourselves in this way
“Truth is the only opportunity you have to create real things in reality.”
Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher
