Giordano Bruno Quotes

I have this desire to have this immaculate form of love that really doesn't exist, so my obsession goes on through life and I never find it and I end up miserable. But it makes me a better writer.

I'll always be chasing you... Glory.

I'm still chasing girls. I don't remember what for, but I'm still chasing them.

I've flown across America, I've scaled fences, I've stood under windows and gone out of my way hundreds of times. I'm a hopeless romantic. There's no hope for me.

Joni Mitchell seems destined to remain in a state of permanent dissatisfaction - always knowing what she would like to do, always more depressed when it's done.

I still think of things for 'Jill' all the time. It's annoying, because I want to be able to find another character who I could write for indefinitely.

The need of truth is more sacred than any other need.

The passion for seeking the truth for truth's sake can be kept alive only if we continue to seek the truth for truth's sake.

If circumstances lead me, I will find Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed Within the centre.

Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.

If you look after truth and goodness, beauty looks after herself.

I hope that the truth shall eventually give me back my freedom.

Love of truth will bless the lover all his days; yet when he brings her home, his fair-faced bride, she comes empty-handed to his door, herself her only dower.

Once you were a child. Once you knew what inquiry was for. There was a time when you asked questions because you wanted answers, and were glad when you had found them. Become a child again, even now... You have gone wrong. Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth.

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

We should put pressure on power and write the truth and write relentlessly and fearlessly. That's the job.

It is far more difficult, I assure you, to live for the truth than to die for it.

We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.

Persuade me or prove to me that I am mistaken in thought or deed, and I will gladly change - for it is the truth I seek, and the truth never harmed anyone. Harm comes from persisting in error and clinging to ignorance.

The excellence and inspiration of truth is in the pursuit, not in the mere having of it. The pursuit of all truth is a kind of gymnastics; a man swings from one truth with higher strength to gain another. The continual glory is the possibility opening before us.

There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily

As it has been finely expressed, "Principle is a passion for truth." And as an earlier and homelier writer hath it, "The truths we believe in are the pillars of our world.

Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.

I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can...And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men to do the same...I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.