“Truth is a pursuit, it's a quest. And proof is certainly in the pudding in this particular instance, because the film, and the evidence accumulated in making the film, led to this man's release from prison. And that's hardly ever happened, if it's happened at all, in any other film that I can think of.” IfsThinkingMenI CanFilmHappenedParticularTruth IsEvidencePrisonProofPursuitInstanceReleaseQuestsPudding Author:Errol Morris
“The separation of church and state is necessary partly because if religion is good then the state shouldn't interfere with the religious vision or with the religious prophet. There must be a realm of truth beyond political competence, that's why there must be a separation of churches, but if religion is bad and a bad religion is one that gives an ultimate sanctity to some particular cause. Then religion mustn't interfere with the state - so one of the basic Democratic principles as we know it in America is the separation of church and state.” IfsKnowsGivingStatesAmericaPoliticalCausesChurchReligiousVisionPrinciplesParticularTruth IsUltimateDemocraticSeparationRealmsProphetInterfereCompetenceChurch And StateSeparation Of Church And StateSanctity Author:Reinhold Niebuhr
“The "truth" is the poem itself. Just because someone writes a poem about a feeling she has does not mean that the feeling will stay forever. The truth of the emotion of the poem remains, even if the particular truth of the poet changes.” IfsWritingMeanDoeFeelingsEmotionForeverParticularPoetTruth IsRemains Author:Denise Duhamel
“We call 'Slavery is wrong' a moral truth because there is a specific history of theoretical investigation of a particular kind of slavery. We discussed it for centuries in metaphysical, economic, biological, and philosophical terms; we listened to all the arguments pro and con, we read all the testimonies of slaves and witnesses, and we decided. Though this 'we" is not everybody on earth, or even most people, who've never thought about slavery much.” PeopleKindEarthTermMoralEconomicCenturyParticularTruth IsArgumentDecidedPhilosophicalSlaverySlaveWitnessInvestigationMetaphysicalTestimonyTheoreticalPros And Cons Author:Catherine Wilson
“Kids, everybody can get behind. It's a bipartisan thing. We care about our kids' health. But the truth is, it's very important for us to talk to parents, in particular mothers, because it's really our self-esteem, it's our initiative.” ImportantSelfCareKidsMotherParentBehindsSelf EsteemParticularTruth IsEsteemInitiativeBipartisan Author:Michelle Obama
“There must be a realm of truth beyond political competence, that's why there must be a separation of churches, but if religion is bad and a bad religion is one that gives an ultimate sanctity to some particular cause.” IfsGivingPoliticalCausesChurchParticularTruth IsUltimateSeparationRealmsCompetenceSanctity Author:Reinhold Niebuhr
“The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole.” KindWholeNamesParticularTruth IsAppropriateKinds Of Love Author:Plato