„I think it is possible, and that is the most dramatic element in modern civilization, that a human truth is opposed to another human truth no less human, ideal against ideal, positive worth against worth no less positive, instead of the struggle being as we are so often told, one between noble truth and vile selfish error.“
R.U.R. supplement in The Saturday Review (1923)
Kontext: Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is — and that is the point I want to stress — that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word... I ask whether it is not possible to see in the present social conflict of the world an analogous struggle between two, three, five equally serious verities and equally generous idealisms? I think it is possible, and that is the most dramatic element in modern civilization, that a human truth is opposed to another human truth no less human, ideal against ideal, positive worth against worth no less positive, instead of the struggle being as we are so often told, one between noble truth and vile selfish error.
Karel Čapek4
tschechischer Schriftsteller 1890 - 1938Ähnliche Zitate
„Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.“
— George Sand, buch La Mare au diable
L'art n'est pas une étude de la réalité positive; c'est une recherche de la vérité idéale.
La Mare au Diable, ch. 1 (1851); Frank Hunter Potter (trans.) The Haunted Pool (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1895) p. 15
„Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.“
— John Ruskin English writer and art critic 1819 - 1900
"Confessions of a Hypocrite: Utopia in the Age of Ecocide" Kosmos (2016) https://www.kosmosjournal.org/article/confessions-of-a-hypocrite-utopia-in-the-age-of-ecocide/
— Albert Einstein, buch The Evolution of Physics
The Evolution of Physics (1938) (co-written with Leopold Infeld) <!-- later published by Simon & Schuster (1967) -->
1930s
Kontext: Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world. In our endeavor to understand reality we are somewhat like a man trying to understand the mechanism of a closed watch. He sees the face and the moving hands, even hears its ticking, but he has no way of opening the case. If he is ingenious he may form some picture of a mechanism which could be responsible for all the things he observes, but he may never be quite sure his picture is the only one which could explain his observations. He will never be able to compare his picture with the real mechanism and he cannot even imagine the possibility or the meaning of such a comparison. But he certainly believes that, as his knowledge increases, his picture of reality will become simpler and simpler and will explain a wider and wider range of his sensuous impressions. He may also believe in the existence of the ideal limit of knowledge and that it is approached by the human mind. He may call this ideal limit the objective truth.
Quelle: Contributions to the history and improvement of the german universities - A history of pedagogy; volume 4 (1855), p. 99
— Malcolm X, buch The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Variante: I’ve had enough of someone else’s propaganda… I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.
Quelle: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Quelle: The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965), p. 400
Kontext: I've had enough of someone else's propaganda. I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against. I'm a human being first and foremost, and as such I am for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.
— George Holmes Howison American philosopher 1834 - 1916
Quelle: The Limits of Evolution, and Other Essays, Illustrating the Metaphysical Theory of Personal Ideaalism (1905), Human Immortality: its Positive Argument, p.309-10
— Alvaro De Rujula 1944
What is a "theoretical physicist"? http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/People/Theorists-en.html at CERN Public Web.
— Richard M. Weaver American scholar 1910 - 1963
Quelle: Ideas have Consequences (1948), p. 73.
„Truth is an antidote against error. Error is the adultery of the mind.“
— Thomas Watson English nonconformist preacher and author 1616 - 1686
Heaven Taken By Storm
— John Gray, buch Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
The Human: Truth and consequences (p. 26)
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (2002)
— Edward O. Wilson American biologist 1929
Quelle: Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (1998), p. 264.
— Jacque Fresco American futurist and self-described social engineer 1916 - 2017
Designing the Future (2007)
„The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.“
— Georg Brandes Danish literature critic and scholar 1842 - 1927
Ferdinand Lassalle (1881)
— Richard Feynman American theoretical physicist 1918 - 1988
remarks (2 May 1956) at a Caltech YMCA lunch forum http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/49/2/Religion.htm
Kontext: In this age of specialization men who thoroughly know one field are often incompetent to discuss another. The great problems of the relations between one and another aspect of human activity have for this reason been discussed less and less in public. When we look at the past great debates on these subjects we feel jealous of those times, for we should have liked the excitement of such argument. The old problems, such as the relation of science and religion, are still with us, and I believe present as difficult dilemmas as ever, but they are not often publicly discussed because of the limitations of specialization.
— Kirby Page American clergyman 1890 - 1957
"The Commercial Motive" Christian Century 40 (Feb 22, 1923)
— John Gray, buch Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
As it is: The consolation of action (p. 193)
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (2002)
