A man may say, "From now on I'm going to speak the truth." But the truth hears him and runs away and… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“I am sure you were sincere. Not insincere. True insincerity is hard to find.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“I venture to say Kierkegaard meant that truth has lost its force with us and horrible pain and evil must teach it… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“And truth is true only as it brings down more disgrace and dreariness upon human beings, so that if it shows anything… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The terms which, in his inmost heart, each man knows. As I know mine. As all know. For that is the truth… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“A style of this sort will seem to modern readers marred by classical stiffness--"Truth," "Knowers," "the Good," "Man"--but we can by no… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
To tell the truth I never had it so good. But I lacked the strength of character to bear such joy. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we are all put together. We are so proud of our autonomy that… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“On Broadway it was still bright afternoon and the gassy air was almost motionless under the leaden spokes of sunlight, and sawdust footprints lay… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, Professor Cohen, how do I know that… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“But now the emphasis has shifted to making it. People have surrendered their personal moral objectives to government or schools or psychologists. It’s a… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
