Conventional Truth

Famous quotes containing the words conventional and/or truth:

“A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man.... It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.”
—Graham Greene (1904–1991)

“Every such truth is the absolute Ens seen from one side. But it has innumerable sides.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)