True

Famous quotes containing the word true:

“But to most of us society shows not its face and eye, but its side and back. To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.”
—Paul De Man (1919–1983)