#truth

"Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise."

"Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, — who is good? not that men are ignorant, — what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men."

"What you see is what you see"

"Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men."

"The Poet's Mind In so many ways I walk ablaze in a maze,my eyes in a glaze, my mind in a daze,this poem's just a phrase in the latency phase,rephrase, rephrase, rephrase..."

"And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world."

"Feelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are until we've opened their cage"

"Truth is a matter of the imagination."

"Turgenev was a very serious fellow but he could make me laugh because a truth first encountered can be very funny. When someone else's truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that's great."

"Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not."

"Where's Ralph Waldo Emerson When you Need Him? A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds;as opposed to bigger hobgoblins with bigger dicks, doing all sorts of ghoulish shit behind the Venetian blinds."

"In a good economy, people work hard to succeed. In a bad economy, people work hard to not fail."

"..the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man."

"An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood."

"If you feel obsessed to prove something to the world, then you'd need world attention to be able to prove it."

"The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they're trying to recapture"

"Spineless [10w] There are more spineless men on the planet than jellyfish."

"Dictator [10w] Clever dictators keep their friends closeand their enemies dead."

"To love someone with all of your heart requires reaching them where they are with the only words they can understand."

"Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths."