“Instead of speaking of beliefs, one must actually speak of truths, and that these truths were themselves products of the imagination. We are not creating a false idea of things. It is the truth of things that through the centuries has been so oddly constituted. Far from being the most simple realistic experience, truth is the most historical. There was a time when poets and historians invented royal dynasties all of a piece, complete with the name of each potentate and his genealogy. They were not forgers, nor were they acting in bad faith. They were simply following what was, at the time, the normal way of arriving at the truth. [...] I do not at all mean to say that the imagination will bring future truths to light and that it should reign; I mean, rather, that truths are already products of the imagination and that the imagination has always governed. It is imagination that rules, not reality, reason, or the ongoing work of the negative.” FactsTruthBeliefImaginationFictionBeliefsFactFake NewsPost TruthFactish Book:Did the Greeks Believe in Their Myths? Source: Did the Greeks Believe in Their Myths?
“J’ étais prétentieux, disait l’un de mes professeurs ; farfelu, disaient mes camarades, à l’exception de mon ami Claude Laurent (car j’aimais et aimerai l’amitié et aurai toujours des amis). Il m’a donc fallu apprendre à devenir indifférent à l’opinion d’autrui.” FreedomSpeechAmistadSpeechlessLoveyourselfBeyourselfAgainstgeneralopinion Book:Et dans l'éternité je ne m'ennuierai pas. Souvenirs Source: Et dans l'éternité je ne m'ennuierai pas. Souvenirs
“Je vois le peintre et son épouse, tous deux francophones, je vois des tableaux, quelques phrases sont échangées et c’est entre nous un coup de foudre mutuel qui devait se perpétuer plus de trente ans, jusqu’à ce que mort s’ensuive. La cordialité réfléchie et directe de l’intelligente Suzanne Donnelly Jenkins y sera pour beaucoup.” Amitié Book:Et dans l'éternité je ne m'ennuierai pas. Souvenirs Source: Et dans l'éternité je ne m'ennuierai pas. Souvenirs