#truths

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Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.


Thomas Aquinas


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I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years.


David Blaine


#i #many #my own #own #reflect

Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.


Denis Diderot


#certainty #confuse #different #different things #entirely

Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.


Bill Cosby


#charge #forth #fundamental #let us #marriage

It's more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren't formulaic in the spirit of filmmakers gone by who've told American stories that were personal and universal as well.


Cameron Crowe


#build #characters #feel #filmmakers #formulaic

If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.


Dean Kamen


#eventually #false #history #indication #out

The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.


Francis Wright


#been #difficult #error #fixed #formed

The Four Noble Truths are pragmatic rather than dogmatic. They suggest a course of action to be followed rather than a set of dogmas to be believed. The four truths are prescriptions for behavior rather than descriptions of reality. The Buddha compares himself to a doctor who offers a course of therapeutic treatment to heal one’s ills. To embark on such a therapy is not designed to bring one any closer to ‘the Truth’ but to enable one’s life to flourish here and now, hopefully leaving a legacy that will continue to have beneficial repercussions after one’s death. (154)


Stephen Batchelor


#buddhism #four-noble-truths #here-and-now #truth #death

The ancient Greeks have a knack of wrapping truths in myths.


George Lloyd


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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.


Julius Charles Hare


#greatest men #men #simplest #truths