truth

Swallow

By aaforringer on March 12, 2026 • ( 0 )

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. Denis Diderot (5 October 1713 – 31 July 1784) was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving… Read More ›

Truth

By aaforringer on February 27, 2025 • ( 0 )

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. Willa Cather Willa Sibert Cather ( born Wilella Sibert Cather; December 7, 1873[– April 24, 1947) was an American writer known for her… Read More ›

Undiscovered

By aaforringer on October 22, 2024 • ( 0 )

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a… Read More ›

Reaction

By aaforringer on July 13, 2023 • ( 0 )

The first reaction to truth is hatred. Tertullian Tertullian (155 AD – c. 220 AD)[1] was a prolific early Christian author from Carthage in the Roman province of Africa.[2] He was the first Christian author to produce an extensive corpus of Latin Christian literature. He was an early Christian apologist and a polemicist against heresy, including… Read More ›