Berdyaev Truth Quotes

#1. It is not short of amazing, the power of a great idea to weld men together. There was in it a peculiar, intense, vital spirit if you will, that I have never felt before in any strike.

Ray Stannard Baker

#2. Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing.

Winston Churchill

#3. I do not think discursively. It is not so much that I arrive at truth as that I take my start from it.

Nikolai Berdyaev

#4. Unfaithfulness to the marriage vow can never be justified.

Dr. J. Otis Yoder

#5. Bellona? is all the Sovereign can say before he presses the button.

Pierce Brown

#6. People only talk about me and sweaters because I don't give them anything else to talk about.

Drake

#7. She had debated, in the frivolity of the beginning, whether to build a hole or a tower; a hole, because she was fond of hobbits, or a tower - well, a tower for many reasons, but chiefly because she liked spiral staircases.

Keri Hulme

#8. There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.

Nikolai A. Berdyaev

#9. Through reproductive technology, postmodernist art dispenses with the aura. The fiction of the creating subject gives way to a frank confiscation, quotation, excerptation, accumulation, and repetition of already existing images. Notions of originality, authenticity, and presence ... are undermined.

Douglas Crimp

#10. Control and violence that is best reflected in the state, are evil in themselves. In this knowledge lies the great truth of anarchism.

Nikolai A. Berdyaev

#11. If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.

Johannes Tauler

#12. Modest egotism is the salt of conversation; you do not want too much of it, but if it is altogether omitted, everything tastes flat.

Henry Van Dyke

#13. In order to acquire learning, we must first shake ourselves free of it.

Alfred North Whitehead

#14. I finished my Ph.D. at Berkeley in November 1987 and took a position as an independent fellow at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in January 1988.

Carol W. Greider

#15. Whoever commands the sea, commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.

Walter Raleigh

#16. She marched into the street, found a liquor store and bought a bottle; and the weight of the bottle in her straw handbag somehow made everything real; as the purchase of a railroad ticket proves the imminence of a journey.

James Baldwin

#17. I'd like to introduce a man with a lot of charm, talent, and wit. Unfortunately, he couldn't be here tonight, so instead ...

Melvin Helitzer

#18. Ma Baxter rocked complacently. They were all pleased whenever she made a joke. Her good nature made the same difference in the house as the hearth-fire had made in the chill of the evening.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings