Quote#Truth
A paradox is a truth standing on its head in order to attract…
Quote byRichard Le Gallienne · 1866–1947
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Review of Reviews, Volume 17 (Jan-July 1898), “The Topic of the Month: The Jubilee of the Awakening of 1848" (April 1898). ("Richard Le Gallienne, who has recently been airing his ambrosial locks in the heated air of American lecture rooms, once told his audience that "a paradox was a truth stan.
English (original)
A paradox is a truth standing on its head in order to attract attention.
— Richard Le Gallienne
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Art was a palace once, things great and fair, And strong and holy , found a temple there:
Yea, howso we dream, Or how bravely we do; The end is the same, Be we traitor or true: And after the bloom And the passion is past
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Perhaps half the falsehood in the world is due to lack of power to detect the truth and to express it. aids both in discernment and in expression of things as they are.
