LONGECITY

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus [Marcus Annius
Verus] (121-180)

Philosopher and emperor of Rome (161-180) who wrote Meditations, a
classic work of stoicism.

I cannot comprehend how any man can want
anything but the truth.

There is but one thing of real value -- to cultivate
truth and justice, and to live without anger in the
midst of lying and unjust men.

-- Marcus Aurelius, from W. E. H. Lecky, History of European Morals (Vol I. p. 106);
quoted from Joseph Lewis The Ten Commandments (p. 572).

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.




William O'Rights
The First Immortal

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.





William O'Rights
The First Immortal

Minds fettered by this doctrine no longer inquire concerning a
proposition whether it is attested by sufficient evidence, but
whether it accords with Scripture; they do not search for facts as
such, but for facts that will bear out their doctrine. It is easy to see
that this mental habit blunts not only the perception of truth, but
the sense of truthfulness, and that the man whose faith drives him
into fallacies treads close upon the precipice of falsehood.... So
long as a belief in propositions is regarded as indispensable to
salvation, the pursuit of truth as such is not possible.


William O'Rights
The First Immortal

The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead.


William O'Rights
The First Immortal

Fear prophets ... and those prepared to die for the truth, as a rule make many others die with them, often before them, and at times instead of them.


William O'Rights
The First Immortal

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods."

Albert Einstein

There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.




William O'Rights
The First Immortal

Your mind is your only judge of truth - and if others dissent from your verdict, reality is the court of final appeal.


William O'Rights
The First Immortal

Let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, you will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit."


William O'Rights
The First Immortal

When you make the finding yourself -- even if you're the last person on Earth
to see the light -- you never forget it.



William O'Rights
The First Immortal

"Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how...
The artist never entirely knows. We quess, we may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark."
Agnes De Mille

A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.

" Nature brings us back to absolute truth whenever we wander. " ( Agassiz ) [ggg]

" Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch....you may kick it about all Day, like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. " ( Holmes )

"Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart"
Friedrich von Schiller

"Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and affects man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of enegy in its presence."
Friedrich Nietzche

"Beauty is power; a smile is its sword."
Wayne Kramer

"Great Truths are felt before they are expressed"
Teilhard de Chardin"

Great truths do not take hold of the masses.
Chuang-tse

Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisble
Stael

When the ripe moment comes, the truth within answers to the fact without, as the flower responds to the sun, giving it heat and colour.
Mabi

Mans evil nature is concealed with many folds of disguise, and covered with various veils. His brows, his eyes, and very often his countenance, are deceitful, and his speech is most commonly a lie.
Cicero