Jules Michelet Quotes
The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth.
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The world is cynical and sarcastic, but that doesn't mean that that's always the truth.
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The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.
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My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way.
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At first, I did have that thought, like, 'Oh crap, what are we going to do after?' Then I realized 'Girl in a Country Song' was an honest, truthful song, and we were telling our truth, and that's all we have to do - write songs that are true and tell our stories.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.
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All truth is not to be told at all times.
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Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
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When I write, I don't allow the fear of consequences to interfere with the writing process. I have in the past paid for my commitment to the truth and the way I live my life. I am prepared to pay more if I have to.
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I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.
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To expect truth to come from thinking signifies that we mistake the need to think with the urge to know.
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It is not decided by votes what is true; otherwise we could never come to any truth, ever. People will vote for what is comfortable - and lies are very comfortable because you don't have to do anything about them, you just have to believe. Truth needs great effort, discovery, risk, and it needs you to walk alone on a path that nobody has traveled before.
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Accept no substitutes; I bring truth to the youth.
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The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.
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There's never gonna be a moment of truth for you While the world is watching All you need is the thing you forgotten And that's to learn to live with what you are.
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Photography does deal with 'truth' or a kind of superficial reality better than any of the other arts, but it never questions the nature of reality - it simply reproduces reality. And what good is that when the things of real value in life are invisible?
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I can never lie to my partner. Even if the truth is harsh, I'll break it to my partner but won't lie.
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If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.
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Most large media firms make outsized investments to acquire and market a small number of titles with strong hit potential, and bank on their sales to make up for middling performance in the rest of their catalogs.
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What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.
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The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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We must have the faith that things will work out somehow, that God will make a way for us when there seems no way.
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The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth.
