John Sterling Quotes

When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.

Nothing is more abstract than reality.

Value, therefore, does not stalk about with a label describing what it is.

All truths wait in all things, They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it, They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon, The insignificant is as big to me as any, (What is less or more than a touch).

Abstract truth is the eye of reason.

General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason.

Everything I tell you is a lie." -Vergere

The true'to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as 'the right' is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.

Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.

Nature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse.

I know that a creed is the shell of a lie.

It's my job to find the cornel of truth and then exaggerate, exaggerate, exaggerate until it's of an appropriate scale.

Truly I say to you, a single number has more genuine and permanent value than an expensive library full of hypotheses.

We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality.

All that matters is that the thing be the thing of the thing.

L'absurde est la notion essentielle et la premie' re ve? rite? . The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth.

To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor of a more concrete element of nature.

Truth is that which cannot be proved false.

Market prices for stocks fluctuate at great amplitudes around intrinsic value but, over the long term, intrinsic value is virtually always reflected at some point in market price.

Truth and right are above utility in all realms of thought and action.

Repeat, over and over again, in case anyone forgets it or believes the contrary, that we do not live in the best of all possible worlds.

What is accidented is reality.

The reasons for which 'this' world has been characterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate its reality; any other kind of reality is absolutely indemonstrable.

Idealism is based on big ideas. And, as anybody who has ever been asked "What's the big idea?" knows, most big ideas are bad ones.