Chronicles Quote by Martin Buber Download Open image “To him who knows how to read the legend, it conveys more truth than the chronicle.” — Martin Buber ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chronicles Know how Knows Legends
Even when the facts are available, most people seem to prefer the legend, and refuse to believe the truth when it in any way… — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image
Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there… — Chris Priestley Copy Share Image
Storytellers seldom let facts get in the way of perpetuating a legend, although a few facts add seasoning and make the legend more believable. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
On the whole, however, the conclusions I have drawn from the proofs quoted may, I believe, safely be relied on. Assuredly they will not be disturbed either by the lays of a poet displaying the exaggeration of his craft, or by the compositions of the chroniclers that are attractive at truth's expense; the subjects they treat of being out of… — Thucydides Copy Share
As a story teller I have always been fascinated with our legends, these can be re-told time and time again. And there is always… — Shobana Copy Share Image
The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth'. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Stories come in all different kinds." Hester scooted closer, clearly enjoying the subject at hand. "There's tales, which are light and fluffy. Good for a smile on a sad day. Then you got yarns, which are showy-yarns reveal more about the teller than the story. After that there's myths, which are stories made up by whole groups of people. And… — Jonathan Auxier Copy Share
“Those who don't understand their personal legends will fail to comprehend its teachings.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
This is the sacrifice: the endless possibility that is offered up on the altar of the form... — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power. ... The great man, whether we comprehend him in the most intense… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
You can rake the muck this way, rake the muck that way-- it will always be muck. Have I sinned or have I not… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
What has to be given up is not the I, as most mystics suppose: this I is indispensable for any relationship, including the highest,… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
To begin with oneself but not to end with onself. To start from oneself but not to aim at oneself. — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware. — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
The concept of guilt is found most powerfully developed even in the most primitive communal forms which we know... the man is guilty who… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
This is the eternal origin of art that a human being confronts a form that wants to become a work through him. Not a… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
My first name was inspired by the character of Aslan, the lion in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia. — Aselin Debison Copy Share Image
The truth is when you have a movie that was as successful as 'Chronicle' was, it's not as quick of a process. There are… — Max Landis Copy Share Image
Vanity Fair has but two major articles in its editorial creed: first, to believe in the progress and promise of American life, and, second,… — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image
...No one died from infection under Keen. ...He (Keen) began to chronicle the results in statistical articles. He was threatened with expulsion from the… — Paul Douglas Copy Share Image
Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never happened or couldn't possibly have happened. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is not only my dreams, my belief is that all these dreams are yours as well. The only distinction between me and you… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Up until the late unpleasantness of the Civil war, then, the right of secession was more or less taken for granted in many quarters,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Old Testament is a chronicle of horrors, describing an egocentric collection of supernatural beings who were always doing rotten things to gentle souls… — John A. Keel Copy Share Image
The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more bloody chronicle in all… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Something about the possession of a book - an object that can contain infinite fables, words of wisdom, chronicles of times gone by, humorous… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
