The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations. — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change. — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
Becoming fully rational is not enough anymore; evidently it can lead to distortions of all the great human possibilities. — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
Distortion upon distortion: . . . the more one uses the mind, the more confused one becomes. — Laozi Copy Share Image
To put up with. . . distortions and to stick to one's guns come what may - this is the. . . gift of leadership. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We don't have the capacity to exaggerate God's goodness. We can distort it, or even misrepresent it, but we can never exaggerate… — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The Beatles had some juice when it came to distortion, but Clapton was finally able to break through those early studio engineers'… — Joe Perry Copy Share Image
A plant has to be watered but when it grows into a tree, it is no longer necessary. Similarly, if the inner… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
We tune differently, and we use some tricks. There's just the two of us for much of a concert, so we want… — Luka Sulic Copy Share Image
I really like iZotope Trash, which is a great plug-in for distortion, as is Ohmicide, which I love. It's an absolutely crazy… — Skrillex Copy Share Image
The Natural Law which God has written into our beings cannot be entirely eradicated, but it can be gravely deformed, leading to… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
Science fiction doesn’t try to predict the future, but rather offers a significant distortion of the present…We sit around and look at… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“A voice materializes out of the distortion in his headphones, then fades, and he goes ferreting after it. There, thinks Werner when… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Writers like Aldous Huxley and George Orwell have imagined the sort of scientific utopia which is coming to pass, but already their… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Now, because men of our contemporary age are caught up in the ascetic view of a life-denying religious system, but in spite… — Guido von List Copy Share Image
Unless we look at a person and see the beauty there is in this person, we can contribute nothing to him. One… — Anthony of Sourozh Copy Share Image
In the course of the history of natural science, it always happens that profound or true thoughts or true facts were always… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
The term "bend sinister" means a heraldic bar or band drawn from the left side (and popularly, but incorrectly, supposed to denote… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Legal ethics is a misnomer ... lawyers conducting themselves legally are not necessarily conducting themselves morally ."...and ..."The zero sum nature of… — Thane Rosenbaum Copy Share Image
The drug war isn't what purports to be. If you look at the whole operation and the tie-in between the American intelligence… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
To the extent that we hyper-separate ourselves from nature and reduce it conceptually in order to justify domination, we not only lose… — Val Plumwood Copy Share Image
“Sikujui. Lakini naamini hungependa kuishi maisha yako hapa duniani bila kuacha urithi au kumbukumbu ya aina yoyote katika jamii. Zifuatazo ni ngazi… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
“All of nature, therefore, is good, since the Creator of all nature is supremely good. But nature is not supremely and immutably… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“The topic of instincts is tough to dissect. But one can gain an understanding by observing the behaviour of animals.” — Mitta Xinindlu Copy Share Image
As Hoffman later lamented, “The reality distortion field can serve as a spur, but then reality itself hits. — Joanna Hoffman Copy Share Image
Language is a serious weapon in shining and sharing Truth. It is also a serious weapon used in its distortion. — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“World & people only seem unlovable due to toxins & lies they've been fed. Release distortions of mind. Return all to innocence & freedom” — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime. — Harry Elmer Barnes Copy Share Image
Art is the distortion of an unendurable reality... Art is correction, modification of a situation; art is communication, connection... Art is social,… — Jean Tinguely Copy Share Image
I can safely say that any band with a sentence for a name, 6 members or more and carefully combed to the… — Chris Reifert Copy Share Image
I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
if you force yourself to be the same as everyone else. It causes neuroses, psychoses, and paranoia. it's a distortion of nature,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges… — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
To will a new form is unacceptable, because will builds distortion. Desire, too, is incomplete and arbitrary. These strategies, however intimate they… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
The ego says, ‘I shouldn’t have to suffer,’ and that thought makes you suffer so much more. It is a distortion of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
