Quotes for All
A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone. Denis Diderot
The ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self: the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another, to have walked with them and to have believed in them, and … Read more
The question of art songs always came up with Gastr del Sol. I think Jim O’Rourke had it right in being clear that there’s a tradition of art song – Ives being the touchstone for the two of us – and what we do doesn’t belong to it. It wasn’t important to advance those kinds … Read more
Validity is the touchstone of inference, and truth of judgment: the fact that vichyssoise is cold ratifies the judgment that vichyssoise is, indeed, cold, and the judgment that vichyssoise is cold expresses the fact that vichyssoise is cold. David Berlinski
My touchstone is just fear and anxiety and I know a lot about those two awful emotions. Chris Pine
As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries men. Chilon of Sparta
Our problem is that when you lose the touchstone, which is humanity, then when you have something like humans dying, it needs to feel profound. Caroline Dries
Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person’s ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience. It is to experience that I must return again and again, to discover a closer approximation to truth as it is in the process … Read more
The capacity for inner dialogue is a touchstone for outer objectivity. Carl Jung
Pain is the touchstone of all growth Bill W.