Absolutes Quote by Jacques Barzun

[T]here is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.

— George Washington

“Verily, for nine hundred years have I lost. Everyone I knew is dead, the empire gone, and who knows in what state the world…

— Michael J. Sullivan

The hat is the pride of man; for he who cannot keep his hat on before kings and emperors is no free man.

— Friedrich Schiller

It seemed to me, in some way, especially when you're looking back at distant historical events, the "Truth" with a capital "T" is kind…

— George Saunders

“for it is the business and duty of historians to be exact, truthful, and wholly free from passion, and neither interest nor fear, hatred…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living.

— William Carlos Williams

[W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Prophecy is history unfulfilled, and history is prophecy fulfilled.”

— Dwight Lyman Moody

“... truth, whose mother is history, who is the rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, example and lesson to the…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Truth does not pay homage to any society, ancient or modern. Society has to pay homage to Truth or die.

— Swami Vivekananda

“The book can also be a hat.”

— Stanley Kubrick

Truth, which is permanent, eludes the historian of events. Truth transcends history.

— Mahatma Gandhi