Antonin Sertillanges Quotes

Truth serves only its slaves.

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• When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • People
  • Great
  • Truth

• Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Truth
  • Reality
  • Fiction

• Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a critical inner truth, the truth that they are worthy of respect.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • People
  • Truth
  • Respect

• It would be easy to blame Hollywood to say that I was typed and forced to play the same role over and over. For a while, I did. But the truth is that I knew what I was doing. I was enjoying myself. I was making money.

  

  Sal Mineo
  • Money
  • Truth
  • Myself

• To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Truth
  • True
  • Afraid

• I don't think we're living in great times for movies, to tell you the truth.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Think

• If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.

  

  Hans Eysenck
  • Truth
  • Bad
  • Beliefs

• Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination of the heart.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Heart
  • Truth
  • Hope

• 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.

  

  Rajneesh
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• I'm planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That's hard for an old, inveterate fantasy martyr and illegible liar who has never hesitated to give truth the form he felt the occasion demanded.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Truth
  • Planning
  • Liar

• The truth is, all might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they ought.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Truth
  • Free
  • Freedom

• Those who believe that... detailed rules originate in a certain cause, are as far from the truth as those who assume that the whole law is useless.

  

  Maimonides
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Law

• Accept no substitutes; I bring truth to the youth.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Truth
  • Accept
  • Substitutes

• One unscrupulous distortion of the truth tends to beget other and opposite distortions.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Truth

• This legislation confronts the human truth that the need for clean water knows no borders, and proper management and intervention can be a currency for peace and international cooperation.

  

  Bill Frist
  • Truth
  • Peace
  • Water

• Not being locked into one set of feelings, which you run the risk of mistaking for the truth, you have greater and more intense access to all feeling states, including those you would never choose to act out.

  

  Mary Gaitskill
  • Truth
  • Feeling
  • Risk

• In time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.

  

  Charles Lindbergh
  • Time
  • Truth
  • War

• I fantasize that our politicians have been moved by the dialogues of Plato, and thus contemplate the ancient conflict of the sophists versus the lovers of truth.

  

  Daniel S. Loeb
  • Truth
  • Plato

• The truth is, for highly competitive bodybuilders, everyone eats the same - oatmeal, chicken, rice - and everyone cuts carbs out at night.

  

  Rich Piana
  • Truth
  • Everyone
  • Competitive

• There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents; distinct from the ordinary lights which guide our course and mark our seasons, yet true to their own laws, potent in their own influences.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Life
  • True
  • Earth

• They let you dream just to watch them shatter, you're just a step on the boss man's ladder.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Work
  • Dream
  • Boss

• Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • Thinking
  • War
  • Beautiful

• Yeah, we could have done things differently. But - If we'd done things differently, we wouldn't be who we are. We are the sum of the choices we make. Even the bad choices we make. I made a lot of bad choices, but on the other hand, I am who I am, and I'm proud of my work, and I'm proud of my family, and those are also the product of choices, including financial choices, that I made.

  

  Neal Gabler
  • Work
  • Proud
  • Choices

• Truth serves only its slaves.

  

  Antonin Sertillanges
  • Truth
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  • Serves