Czeslaw Milosz
- The Captive Mind: Truth in Writing
When a writer strives to present reality most faithfully he becomes convinced that untruth is at times the greatest truth. The world is so rich and so complex that the more one tries not to omit any part of the truth, the more uncovers wonders that elude the pen.
Friedrich Nietzsche
- Nature and Truth, from On Truth and Lie ,1873
She threw away the key; and woe to the calamitous curiosity that might peer just once through the crack in consciousness and look down, and sense that man rests up on the merciless, the greedy, the insatiable, the murderous, in the indifference of his ignorance--hanging in dreams, as it were upon the back of a tiger. In view of this, whence in all the world comes the urge for truth?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Faust
I am the spirit that negates. And rightly so, for all that comes to be deserves to perish wretchedly; 'twere better nothing would begin. Thus everything that your terms, sin, destruction, evil represent - that is my proper element.
