#ruth

He told us that nations of men fell into disorder, so nations of law were set up instead. He told us that nations of law then forgot justice and let the law become a Game, a Game in which the moves and the winning were more important than truth. He told us to seek justice rather than the Game. ↗

— Sheri S. Tepper

#government #justice #law #order #society

Intellectually, what is stimulating to a young man is a problem of obvious practical importance. A young man learning economics, for example, ought to hear lectures from individualists and socialists, protectionists and free-traders, inflationists and believers in the gold standard. He ought to be encouraged to read the best books of the various schools, as recommended by those who believe in them. This would teach him to weigh arguments and evidence, to know that no pinion is certainly right, and to judge men by their quality rather than by their consonance with preconceptions. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#learning #objectivity #rationality #subjectivity #truth

You find that all men are successes or failures. Success is the stamp of truth. I will say all men who fail to place their feet on the dome of facts do so by not sieving all truth and throwing the faulty to one side. ↗

— Andrew Taylor Still

#facts #fail #failures #faulty #feet

MAN MAKES MONEY, BUT MONEY HIM MAD. MAN MAKES A MISTAKES, BUT MISTAKES MAKES MAN BRILLINT. ↗

— N.V.L.N.R.K

#money

And whatever my life had been up to that day, it was another life after that. And that is the gospel truth. ↗

— Sebastian Barry

#truth #change

It doesn't matter who said it, as long as it changed you. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#change #quotes #sayings #transformation #truth

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#friends #readiest #suppressed #truth #weapon

With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note. ↗

— Aristotle

#philosophy #truth #music

True art is thoughtful, emotional examination of how human themes impact the overall experience of existing. The rest is kitsch. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#artist #existence #experience #humanity #life

What you've called "manipulated truth". All truth is manipulated, because the universe is chaotic. What we divine from it is the superimposition of some kind of order, whether it's religion, superstition, story and art, literature, science - all of them are an attempt to keep the wolf from the door. And that wolf is chaos. ↗

— -Unknown

#truth #art