There is much truth in both these charges, and not many Bourbons deny them.

Poetry for a Persian is nothing less than truth and beauty.

To my knowledge, Lincoln remains the only Head of State and Commander-in-Chief who, while fighting a fearful war whose issue was in doubt, proved man enough to say this publicly -- to give his foe the benefit of the fact that in all human truth there is some error, and in all our error, some truth.

So great a man could not but understand, too, that the thing that moves men to sacrifice their lives is not the error of their thought, which their opponents see and attack, but the truth which the latter do not see -- any more than they see the error which mars the truth they themselves defend.

I suggested that one must let it in because it is the truth, but Beckett did not take to the word truth.

The central concern of Erich Auerbach's impressive volume called Mimesis is to describe the shift from a classic theory of imitation ( based upon a recognition of levels of truth ) to a Christian theory of imitation in which the levels are dissolved.

For this change is not a change from one positive position to another, but a change from order and truth to disorder and negation.

This, however, cannot be done by a community whose very experience of truth is confused and incoherent: it has no absolute standard, and consequently cannot distinguish the absolute from the contingent.

Its ontological status is itself most tenuous because apart from individual men, who are its `` matter '', tradition, the `` form '' of society exists only as a shared perception of truth.

And the direction of that movement is determined by his perception of the truth about himself.

And it would seem that history is a witness to this truth.

The basic truth in the reactionary response is to be found in its realistic assumption of the primacy of the real over the ideational.

But this truth is distorted by its extreme application: the assumption of the separate existence of tradition.

Whatever the psychological truth in the Oedipus myth, an Oedipus who is drawn to his fate by irresistible external forces can carry the symbol of humanity and its archaic crime, and the incest that is unknowing renews the mystery of the eternal dream of childhood and absorbs us in the secret.

But a modern Oedipus who is doomed because he cannot oppose his own childhood is only pathetic, and for renouncing the mystery in favor of psychological truth he gives up the claim on our sympathies.

Mann understood better than most men the incest comedy at the center of the myth and the psychological truth in which dread is shown as the other face as longing was for him just the kind of deep and complicated joke he liked to tell.

But however we come, finally, to explain and account for the present, the truth we are trying to expose, right now, is that the makers of constitutions and the designers of institutions find it difficult if not impossible to anticipate the behavior of the host of all their enterprises.

Its truth is illustrated by the skill, sensitivity, and general expertise of the English professor with whom one attends the theatre.

This truth that the moral law is natural has other important corollaries.

Nogaret is hardly an impartial witness, and even he did not make his charges against Boniface until the latter was dead, but there is some truth in what he said and more in what he did not say.

According to intuitionists ( anti-realists with respect to mathematical objects ), the truth of a mathematical statement consists in our ability to prove it.

This is our doctrine of apostolic succession " neither depends on, nor is secured by, " an official succession of ministers, whether bishops or presbyters, from apostolic times, but rather by fidelity to apostolic truth ".

They swore that they would " in the fear and reverence of our Almighty God, mutually and severally promise amongst ourselves and each to profess and practice one truth according to that most perfect rule, the foundation whereof is ever lasting love.

* All of our commonly accepted moral duties, from doing no harm unto others to speaking always the truth to keeping promises, are rooted in the one fundamental principle of self-interest.

For example, if I say “ Star Wars is a shitty movie ,” and my friend says, “ Star Wars is not a shitty movie !” We have no shared reality, for in our language, truth lies in only one of our statements and we can forever argue these truths until one of us writes a book and has more authority than the other.

The first truth highlights the inevitability of humiliation in our lives of our narcissistic self-esteem.

If a statement happens to be true in our world, but is false in some other worlds, then it is a contingent truth.

A statement that is true in some world ( not necessarily our own ) is called a possible truth.

Traditionally, in our universe and in this time cycle, Rishabha is regarded as the first to realize the truth.

However, in the untyped lambda calculus, there's no way to prevent our function from being applied to truth values, or strings, for instance.

But it is not enough for the members of a free society to believe that truth, justice, and beauty, are objective, they also have to accept that objective ideals are realities that transcend our ability to wholly capture them.

Our pursuit of self-set ideals such as truth and justice enriches our awareness of the world.

Since therefore all that the inspired authors or sacred writers affirm should be regarded as affirmed by the Holy Spirit, we must acknowledge that the books of Scripture firmly, faithfully, and without error teach that truth which God, for the sake of our salvation, wished to see confided to the Sacred Scriptures.

Deconstruction can thus be seen not as a denial of truth, but as a denial of our ability to know truth ( it makes an epistemological claim compared to nihilism's ontological claim ).

" In lieu of meta-narratives we have created new language-games in order to legitimize our claims which rely on changing relationships and mutable truths, none of which is privileged over the other to speak to ultimate truth.

Consequently our opinions about truth must often be false and deceitful.

He argued that truth was not about getting it right or representing reality, but was part of a social practice and language was what served our purposes in a particular time ; ancient languages are sometimes untranslatable into modern ones because they possess a different vocabulary and are unuseful today.

: I Timothy 2: 3-4 " For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

In fact, this process is merely a fancier form of the classic Liar ParadoxA: If I say, " I am a liar ", then how can it be true if I am telling the truth therewith, and, if I am telling the truth therewith, then how can I be a liar?

Although some measure of truth lies within the tale, it is largely an idealized account written by author Bigelow Paine and loosely based on McDonald's statements, published in Paine's classic book Captain Bill McDonald: Texas Ranger in 1909.

Expanding on a scene from the classic tales in which a knight is poisoned at Guinevere's feast and the queen is accused of the crime, Karr turns her story into a murder mystery with Kay as the detective attempting to discover the truth.

The laws are now incorporated into his boolean logic in which the classic Aristotelian laws come down to saying there are two and only two truth values.

* In the film noir classic, Lady from Shanghai ( 1948 ), Orson Welles ' famous final shootout takes place in a funhouse hall of mirrors, as O ' Hara learns the truth in a place that trades on deception.

When Wonder Woman first encounters this Uncle Sam, he is visually very similar to the Uncle Sam from Alex Ross ' miniseries ; once she uses her magic lasso to reveal the truth to him, he reverts to his classic persona and costume.