My job is to get people to write something truthful, something about truth and beauty - wherever they are - and to… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
“Paul Ricoeur has wonderful counsel for people like us. Go ahead, he says, maintain and practice your hermaneutics of suspicion. It is… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“Aim for truth, and beauty will follow. Aim for beauty, and truth will not necessarily follow.” — Chuck Wachtel Copy Share Image
“Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can't. And, of course, whenever the masses seized political power, then it… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Study and, in general, the pursuit of truth and beauty is the sphere in which we are permitted to remain children all… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I would not know what to say to you, except this: there was never a map that got it all right, and… — Reif Larsen Copy Share Image
Our world has changed for better or for worse. It is for us to find truth and beauty for today, constantly re-applying… — Hans Rookmaaker Copy Share Image
The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. A great book that comes from a great… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
“Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines written by the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
My "degree" has done nothing for me at all. But that I've learned - the critical thought processes I've tried to keep… — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
Truth and Beauty (perhaps Keats was wrong in identifying them: perhaps they have the relation of Wit and Humour, or Rain and… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“Our Ford himself did a great deal to shift the emphasis from truth and beauty to comfort and happiness. Mass production demanded… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Many people are partial to the notion that . . . all writers are somehow mere vessels for Truth and Beauty when… — Paul Collins Copy Share Image
Justice, truth, and beauty are sisters and comrades. With three such beautiful words we have no need to look for any others. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
No one can give a definition of the soul. But we know what it feels like. The soul is the sense of… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“The honest preachers had energy and go. They fought the devil, no holds barred, boots and eye-gouging permitted. You might get the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In each little life, we can see great truth and beauty, and in each little life we glimpse the way of all… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Literary art's sudden, startling truth and beauty make us feel, in the most solitary part of us, that we are not alone,… — Lee Siegel Copy Share Image
Those works alone can have enduring success which successfully appeal to what is permanent in human nature -- which, while suiting the… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
I seek truth and beauty in the transparency of an autumn leaf, in the perfect form of a seashell on the beach,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The Bible is endlessly interesting because it is God's story, and God by nature is himself endlessly interesting. The Bible is an… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Men of vision caught glimpses of truth and beauty shining aloft like stars: and in these glimpses was a new hope for… — Robert Falconer Copy Share Image
Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do not resign themselves to… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
An economy where advertisers thrive while journalists and artists struggle, reflects the values of a society more interested in deception and manipulation… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Beauty, the splendour of truth, is a gracious presence when the imagination contemplates intensely the truth of its own being or the… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
