Tankred Dorst famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

  • The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful. The surest way to end them is to establish beyond question what should be the purpose and method of a philosophical enquiry. And this is by no means so difficult a task as the history of philosophy would lead one to suppose. For if there are any questions which science leaves it to philosophy to answer, a straightforward process of elimination must lead to their discovery.

  • Truth is generally the best vindication against slander

  • There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

  • I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.

  • The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth. Little men are dissolved in it. If there is any gold, truth makes it shine more brightly. . . .Truth, even in the mouth of an informer, a spy, a briber, can become bigger than anybody who tries to destroy it. Truth survives.

  • What is enquiry into the Truth? It is the firm conviction that the Self is real, and all, other than That, is unreal.

  • Tell a lie loud enough and long enough and people will believe it.

  • It is not truth that matters, but victory.

  • Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent.

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