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"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,"Mthat is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
(John Keats (1795-1821), British poet. Ode on a Grecian Urn, st. 5, Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes and Other Poems (1820).
Closing lines.)
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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
(Sarah Bernhardt (1845-1923), French actor. The Art of the Theatre, ch. 3 (1924).
Written in 1923.)
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Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative.
(Edward Gibbon (1737-1794), British historian. repr. As Autobiography (1971). Memoirs of my Life, introduction (1796).)
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The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
(Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. "Civil Disobedience," originally published as "Resistance to Civil Government" (1849), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 4, p. 384, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
(Tertullian (c. 150-230), Roman church father. Apologeticus, VI.3.)
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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
(F.H. (Francis Herbert) Bradley (1846-1924), British philosopher. Aphorisms, no. 6 (1930).)
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An aphorism never coincides with the truth: it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.
(Karl Kraus (1874-1936), Austrian writer. Trans. by Harry Zohn, originally published in Beim Wort genommen (1955). Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths, University of Chicago Press (1990).)
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An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself.
(Minna Antrim (b. 1861), U.S. epigrammist. Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions, p. 37 (1901).)
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