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Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.
-Alan Lightman
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Each Time Is True, But The Truths

Alan Lightman
Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.
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There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. there are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for students; truths that are appropriate for educated adults; and truths that are appropriate for highly educated adults, and the notion that there should be one set of truths available to everyone is a modern democratic fallacy. it doesn't work.
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So multifarious are the different classes of truths, and so multitudinous the truths in each class, that it may be undoubtingly affirmed that no man has yet lived who could so much as name all the different classes and subdivisions of truths, and far less anyone who was acquainted with all the truths belonging to any one class. what wonderful extent, what amazing variety, what collective magnificence! and if such be the number of truths pertaining to this tiny ball of earth, how must it be in the incomprehensible immensity!
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Both in verse and in prose [karl] shapiro loves, partly out of indignation and partly out of sheer mischievousness, to tell the naked truths or half-truths or quarter-truths that will make anybody's hair stand on end; he is always crying: "but he hasn't any clothes on!" about an emperor who is half the time surprisingly well-dressed.
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There never is any such thing as one truth to be found in dramatic art. there are many. these truths challenge each other, recoil from each other, reflect each other, ignore each other, tease each other, are blind to each other. sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.
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All significant truths are private truths. as they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.
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"we hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the declaration of independence changes it instead into an assertion of rationality. the scientific mind of franklin drew on the scientific determinism of isaac newton and the analytic empiricism of david hume and gottfried leibniz. in what became known as "hume's fork" the latters' theory distinguished between synthetic truths that describe matters of fact, and analytic truths that are self-evident by virtue of reason and definition.
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