“Description is a story well told already; experience offers truth.”
“Lackadaisical Elements,” p. 93
The Creator (2000), Sequence: “Nostalgic Elements”
“The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.”
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“A lie told often enough becomes the truth.”
Vladimir Lenin
(1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution
Alice Miller
(1923–2010) Swiss psychologist
Source: The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
“The history of the race is but that of the individual "writ large."”
George Henry Lewes
(1817–1878) British philosopher
Vol. 2, p. 135
The Foundations of a Creed (1874-5)
Source: Chasm City (2001), Chapter 21 (p. 359).
Source: The Last Castle (1966), Chapter 3, section 2
George Henry Lewes
(1817–1878) British philosopher
The Principles of Success in Literature (1865)
Context: Except in the rare cases of great dynamic thinkers whose thoughts are as turning-points in the history of our race, it is by Style that writers gain distinction, by Style they secure their immortality. In a lower sphere many are remarked as writers although they may lay no claim to distinction as thinkers, if they have the faculty of felicitously expressing the ideas of others; and many who are really remarkable as thinkers gain but slight recognition from the public, simply because in them the faculty of expression is feeble. In proportion as the work passes from the sphere of passionless intelligence to that of impassioned intelligence, from the region of demonstration to the region of emotion, the art of Style becomes more complex, its necessity more imperious.
“The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
July 1855
1820s, Journals (1822–1863)
“It is easy to lie with statistics. It is hard to tell the truth without it.”
Andrejs Dunkels
(1939–1998)
cited in: Andrea Varsavsky, Iven Mareels, Mark Cook (2010). Epileptic Seizures and the EEG. p. 89
John Michael Kudrick
(1947) Roman Catholic bishop
Source: Pope Francis & Married Catholic Priests: Q&A with Bishop John of Parma https://www.americamagazine.org/content/all-things/pope-francis-married-catholic-priests-qa-bishop-john-parma (3 December 2014)