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truth light lines
Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines. Charles Caleb Colton
truth roots errors
It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors Charles Caleb Colton
truth honesty integrity
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another. Charles Caleb Colton
truth common theory
Theories are private property, but truth is common stock. Charles Caleb Colton
truth thinking hungry
I think everyone's hungry for the truth Alanis Morissette
truth lying heart
Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is no self to which one ought to be true, then sincerity is simply nerve; it lies in the unabashed vigor of the pretense. But pretense is only pretense when it is assumed that the act is not true to the agent. Find the agent. Alan Watts
truth unity duality
Duality is always secretly unity. Alan Watts
truth unfolding absolutes
Truth is always unfolding. It's not an absolute. Alan Arkin
truth lying acting
I always tell the truth. Even when I lie. Al Pacino
writing hair fire
Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing something and tearing it up... Charles Dickens
writing numbers gold
Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither. Charles Caleb Colton
writing language nonsense
It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living. Charles Caleb Colton
writing men profound
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads. Charles Caleb Colton
writing faces privacy
The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down. Charles Caleb Colton
writing men three
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it. Charles Caleb Colton
writing should-have fire
We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire. Charles Caleb Colton
writing self hints
The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author's that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon. Charles Caleb Colton
writing two style
When I meet with any persons who write obscurely or converse confusedly, I am apt to suspect two things; first, that such persons do not understand themselves; and secondly, that they are not worthy of being understood by others. Charles Caleb Colton
reality drawing views
Falsehood, like a drawing in perspective, will not bear to be examined in every point of view, because it is a good imitation of truth, as a perspective is of the reality, only in one. But truth, like that reality of which the perspective is the representation, will bear to be scrutinized in all points of view, and though examined under every situation, is one and the same. Charles Caleb Colton
reality kind all-kinds
Increasingly, we're developing all kinds of systems for verifying reality by echoing it. Alan Watts
reality past concrete
The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality. Alan Watts
reality negative
Beyond positive and negative, what is Reality? Alan Watts
reality men ink
But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know. Alan Watts
reality ultimate-reality ultimate
Everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality... Alan Watts
reality confusion people
I am amazed that Congressmen can pass a bill imposing severe penalties on anyone who burns the American flag , whereas they are responsible for burning that for which the flag stands: the United States as a territory, as a people , and as a biological manifestation. That is an example of our perennial confusion of symbols with realities. Alan Watts
reality sea views
Our view of reality is like a chart of the sea - the truer it is, the less likely we will become lost. Alan Watts
reality definitions purpose
The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition are relative to various purposes, and that none of them actually “grasp” reality. Alan Watts