"The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think."

-- Aristotle

#Truth Quotes #Science Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.”

Source : Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.138, Simon and Schuster
“the usual attitude of Christians towards Jews is - I hardly know whether to say more impious or more stupid, when viewed in the light of their professed principles. ... They hardly know Christ was a Jew. And I find men, educated, supposing that Christ spoke Greek. To my feeling, this deadness to the history which has prepared half our world for us, this inability to find interest in any form of life that is not clad in the same coat-tails and flounces as our own, lies very close to the worst kind of irreligion.”
“I bet if I give all my love then nothing's gonna tear us apart.”
“The only way Iâ€™d ever recruit a white quarterback to play for me is if his mom and daddy would both have to be black, and thatâ€™s the only way I would do it.”
“Ladies Commit, There's A Wedding In It For You.”
“It's so easy in life for us to receive blessings, many of them almost uncounted, and have things happen in our lives that can help change our lives, improve our lives, and bring the Spirit into our lives. But we sometimes take them for granted. How grateful we should be for the blessings that the gospel of Jesus Christ brings into our hearts and souls. I would remind all of you that if we're ever going to show gratitude properly to our Heavenly Father, we should do it with all of our heart, might, mind, and strength-because it was He who gave us life and breath”
“It is my contention that a really great novel is made with a knife and not a pen. A novelist must have the intestinal fortitude to cut out even the most brilliant passage so long as it doesn't advance the story.”
“The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past.... The writing of history liberates us from history.”

Source : Benedetto Croce (1941). “History as the Story of Liberty”

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