"La veÂ riteÂ Â existe; on n'invente que le mensonge. Truth exists; only lies are invented."

-- Georges Braque

#Lying Quotes #Rite Quotes

“Things were not tragic for us then, because although we cared passionately we didn't care deeply.”
“Why do most great pictures look uncontrived? Why do photographers bother with the deception, especially since it so often requires the hardest work of all? The answer is, I think, that the deception is necessary if the goal of art is to be reached: only pictures that look as if they had been easily made can convincingly suggest that beauty is commonplace.”
“The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they've suddenly become nihilists.”
“To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress modestly according to the command of a genderless Creator; to assert pride in self, and embrace one's faith openly, with independence and courageous conviction.”
“A fool and his money will soon be departed applies equally to venture capitalists as it does to everyone else.”
“William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller that the world has ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at war, Sophocles and Tolstoy told of tragedies and of people in trouble. Terence and Mark Twain told cosmic stories, Dickens told melodramatic ones, Plutarch told histories and Hans Christian Andersen told fairy tales. But Shakespeare told every kind of story â€“ comedy, tragedy, history, melodrama, adventure, love stories and fairy tales â€“ and each of them so well that they have become immortal. In all the world of storytelling he has become the greatest name.”
“The tolerance within the body of Islam was, and is, something without parallel in history; class and race and color ceasing altogether to be barriers.”
“Governmental regulations all carry coercion to some degree, and even where they don't, they habituate man to expect teaching, guidance and help outside himself, instead of formulating his own.”

Source : "The Liberal Tradition in European Thought". Book by David Sidorsky, p. 73, 1971.

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