“The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, valor, rage--who can tell?--but
truth--truth stripped of its cloak of time.”
Source: Heart of Darkness
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Polish-British writer 1857–1924Related quotes
“All I can hope to teach my son is to tell the truth and fear no man.”
Edward R. Murrow (1908–1965) Television journalist
Speech to his staff (1954)
Richard Fuller (minister) (1804–1876) United States Baptist minister
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 245.
“Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.”
Neil Gaiman (1960) English fantasy writer
Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming (2013)
Context: We writers – and especially writers for children, but all writers – have an obligation to our readers: it's the obligation to write true things, especially important when we are creating tales of people who do not exist in places that never were – to understand that truth is not in what happens but what it tells us about who we are. Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.
“It is better to die well, than to live wrongly (…) who is afraid of death loses the joy of life; truth prevails all, prevails who is killed, because no adversity can harm him, who is not dominated by injustice.”
Melius est bene mori, quam male vivere (...) qui mortem metuit, amittit gaudia vitae; super omnia vincit veritas, vincit, qui occiditur, quia nulla ei nocet adversitas, si nulla ei dominatur iniquitas.
Jan Hus (1369–1415) Czech linguist, religion writer, theologist, university educator and science writer
Quoted in John Huss: His Life, Teachings and Death, After Five Hundred Years (1915) by David Schley Schaff, p. 58.
Jan Hus in Letter to Christian of Prachatice, probably the most influential of his quotes, first adopted as the motto by Hussite warriors, centuries later this motto was inscribed on the banner of the Presidents of the Czechoslovakia and now (in Czech translation) is inscribed on the banner of the President of the Czech Republic.
Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007) French sociologist and philosopher
Source: 1980s, The Ecstasy of Communication (1987), p. 73
James Burgh (1714–1775) British politician
The Dignity of Human Nature (1754)
Horace Mann (1796–1859) American politician
James Burgh, in The Dignity of Human Nature (1754)
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