If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.

Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.

In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.

I am an artist... I am here to live out loud.

There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.

One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

The thought is a deed. Of all deeds she fertilizes the world most.

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

I believe that all is illusion and vanity outside the treasure of truths slowly accumulated, and which will never again be lost. I believe that the sum of these truths, always increasing, will at last confer on man incalculable power and peace, if not happiness. Yes, I believe in the final triumph of life.

I believe that the future of humanity is in the progress of reason through science. I believe that the pursuit of truth, through science, is the divine ideal which man should propose to himself.

I defy you to find any real will, any reasoning force, outside of life. And everything is there; there is, in the world, no other will than this force which impels everything to life, a life even broader and higher.

In Paris, everything's for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.

Keep well; that is the half of wisdom and of happiness.

One must be arrogant, indeed, to imagine that one can take everything in one's hand and know everything!

People like comfort; that's natural. But as for making money simply for the sake of making it, and giving yourself far more trouble and anxiety to gain it than you can ever get pleasure from it when it's gained, why, as for me, I'd rather sit still and cross my arms.

Selling beauty is something I can understand. Even selling false beauty seems perfectly natural; it's a sign of progress.

The fear of life, the fear of burdens and of duties, of annoyances and of catastrophes! The fear of life, which makes us, through dread of its sufferings, refuse its joys. Ah! I tell you, this cowardliness enrages me; I cannot forgive it. We must live - live a complete life - live all our life.

Up to this day, there has been no proof of the existence of any intelligence other than the human.

Vines will be planted, corn will spring up, a whole growth of new crops; and people will still fall in love in vintages and harvests yet to come. Life is eternal; it is a perpetual renewal of birth and growth.

When people have not the same ideas, it is certainly better not to talk about them.

If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.

She was cold by nature self love predominating over passion rather than being virtuous she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.

The conclusion does not belong to the artist.

There are two men inside the artist the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.

The fate of animals is of far greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous.

My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.

The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.

Sure I think it is healthy to speak the truth, and be who you are, and be proud of that.

The Republicans claim they are for strengthening Pell grants when the truth is that over the last four years, their legislation has done the exact opposite.

It's a lot easier to tell the truth usually.

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.

There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

Christians must be Jews. The truth of what we believe depends on the truth of Judaism, depends on the first covenant.

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.

There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.