Best century & lying Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century [...] lies where we have never suspected it [...] The only palliative is [...] by reading old books. [...] the books of the future would be just as good [...], but unfortunately we cannot get at them.”

May Book Would Be Lying Reading Century Characteristics Blindness Twentieth Century Old Books

Author:C. S. Lewis

“The world's in a bad way, my man, And bound to be worse before it mends; Better lie up in the mountain here Four or five centuries, While the stars go over the lonely ocean.”

Men World Way Lying Stars Five Four Century Mountain Ocean Lonely Bounds

Book:The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers

Source: The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers

“Our lives are waves that come up out of the ocean of eternity, break upon the beach of earth, and lapse back to the ocean of eternity. Some are sunlit, some run in storm and rain; one is a quiet ripple, another is a thunderous breaker; and once in many centuries comes a great tidal wave that sweeps over a continent; but all go back to the sea and lie equally level there.”

Life Running Earth Lying Levels Break Our Lives Sea Century Quiet Ocean Rain Eternity Wave Come Up Storm Beach Continents Ripple Lapses Tidal Waves

Author:Austin O'Malley

“It is a fact worth pondering that four centuries ago the evil of "an abundance or surplus" arose from its being kept off the market, while today the evil of surplus lies in its being thrown upon the market.”

Facts Today Lying Evil Four Century Abundance Thrown Pondering Surplus

Author:Benjamin Graham

“this is the spirit of the enchantment under which Venice lies, pearly and roseate, like the Sleeping Beauty, changeless throughout the centuries, arrested, while the concrete forest of the modern world grows up around her.”

World Spirit Lying Grows Sleep Growing Up Modern Century Forests Concrete Modern World Arrested Venice Enchantment Sleeping Beauty

Book:Venice observed

Source: Venice observed

“I was a very ancient twelve; my views at that age would have done credit to a Civil War veteran. I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway, less burdened. The weight of the centuries lies on children, I'm sure of it.”

Children War Done Age Lying Views Century Weight Ancient Credit Civil War Twelve Veteran War Veteran

Author:Flannery O'Connor

“The philosophy of love and peace strangely overlooked who was in possession of the guns. There had been love and peace for some time on the continent of Africa because for all this time black men had been captivated by the doctrines of Christianity. It took them centuries to realize its contradictions. ... perhaps there was no greater crime as yet than all the lies Western civilization had told in the name of Jesus Christ.”

“Women if you want to realise yourselves - you are on the eve of a devastating psychological upheaval - all your pet illusions must be unmasked - the lies of centuries have got to go - are you prepared for the Wrench?”

Ifs Want Lying Century Illusion Prepared Psychological Pet Realising Upheaval Wrenches

Author:Mina Loy

“Christendom never came from an unbroken grave. It would have been buried in that grave, as Judas thought it was going to be, and as the Jews thought it was going to be, except there had been a resurrection from the dead. Then you can explain Christendom, churches, and literatures, if Christ rose again; but otherwise they cannot be explained at all. Our whole civilization rests on the broken Cross of the Master, and it is incredible that a civilization like this, in a world advancing steadily for eighteen centuries, has been founded on a lie.”

“the solution to racism lies in our ability to see its ubiquity but not to concede its inevitability. It lies in the collective and institutional power to make change, at least as much as with the individual will to change. It also lies in the absolute moral imperative to break the childish, deadly circularity of centuries of blindness to the shimmering brilliance of our common, ordinary humanity.”

Source: Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race

“Here is Christianity. Whence came it? It is a force in the world, a prodigious force. It has revolutionized society. It has lifted man out of himself. It has changed the face of the world. There it lies, imbedded in more than eighteen centuries of human history; and history of no mean sort, the best record of the race.”

Men World Humans Mean Faces Lying Force Race Christianity Records Century Changed Human History Eighteen Prodigious

Book:Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration

Source: Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration

“With a full century of contrary proof in our possession and despite our demonstrated capacity for cooperative teamwork, some among us seem to accept the shibboleth of an unbridgeable gap between those who hire and those who are employed. We miserably fail to challenge the lie that what is good for management is necessarily bad for labor; that for one side to profit, the other must be depressed. Such distorted doctrine is false and foreign to the American scene where common ideals and purpose permit us a common approach toward the common good.”

“We have battled in America since the century's turn to bring to nothing any and all Christian influences and we are succeeding. While we today seem to be kind to the Christian, remember we have yet to influence the 'Christian world' to our ends... You must work until 'religion' is synonymous with 'insanity'... It is only necessary to work incessantly upon the official, using personal defamations, wild lies, false evidences and constant propaganda to make him fight for you against the church or against any practitioner.”

Source: THE SOVIET ART OF BRAINWASHING: A synthesis of the Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics

“Who of us would not be glad to lift the veil behind which the future lies hidden; to cast a glance at the next advances of our science and at the secrets of its development during future centuries? What particular goals will there be toward which the leading mathematical spirits of coming generations will strive? What new methods and new facts in the wide and rich field of mathematical thought will the new centuries disclose?”

Facts Spirit Lying Next Goal Secret Behinds Rich Generations Century Fields Particular Development Method Strive Casts Wide Glad Mathematical Lifts Glances Veils

Author:David Hilbert

“I had only to remember that centuries before, men fell in battle for the daughter of Troy, that passions carried greater weight than decorum. It took so little to prove that human life and property are devastatingly temporary. All she had to do was lie down for a prince. They burned the city to the ground.”

Men Humans Littles Remember Lying Passion Cities Greater Century Battle Prove Daughter Weight Property Human Life Temporary Burned Decorum

Author:Brenna Yovanoff

“The old dead trees are the most fascinating - the countless trees lying in the gullies and up the hills that fell perhaps a century ago, pulling up their roots from the earth as they toppled. The great upheavals left rocks in their huge tentacles and, as they slowly rot, the trunks are home to populations of creatures, from goannas to wild pigs. As grey as tombstones in a cemetery they lie there, having outlasted generations of farmers, as they'll outlast me. In their own way they are as beautiful, more beautiful, than living trees.”

“Yet again, an ancient answer echoes across the centuries: Listen! Listen to stories! For what stories do, above all else, is hold up a mirror so that we can see ourselves. Stories are mirrors of human be-ing, reflecting back our very essence. In a story, we come to know precisely the both/and, mixed-upped-ness of our very being. In the mirror of another's story, we can discover our tragedy and our comedy-and therefore our very human-ness, the ambiguity and incongruity, that lie at the core of the human condition.”

Source: The Spirituality of Imperfection: Storytelling and the Search for Meaning

“Pathos truly is the mode for the pessimist. But tragedy requires a nicer balance between what is possible and what is impossible. And it is curious, although edifying, that the plays we revere, century after century, are the tragedies. In them, and in them alone, lies the belief-optimistic, if you will, in the perfectibility of man.”

Ifs Men Play Lying Belief Impossible Century Balance Tragedy Optimistic Curious Pessimist Pathos

Book:The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller

Source: The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller

“Radio - and perhaps airplanes, and then of course, the atom bomb - was the preeminent technology of the first half of the 20th century. It was how the Third Reich controlled its citizens, spread lies, and disseminated fear.”

Firsts Lying Courses Half Technology Century Citizens Thirds Radio Spread Bombs Controlled Atoms Airplane 20th Century Atom Bomb

Author:Anthony Doerr

“We can't write a serious novel in the 21st century without acknowledging the inescapable self-awareness we're stuck with. The idea we're surrounded by falsehoods and lies. It's hard for the thinking person to believe in narratives. And yet we want some place to invest our belief.”

Thinking Want Writing Believe Persons Ideas Self Hard Lying Belief Novel Century Awareness Serious Self Awareness Stuck Narrative Falsehood 21st Century Thinking Person

Author:Michael Helm

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