Fables, like parables, are more ancient than formal arguments and are often the most effective means of presenting and impressing both truth and duty. (Tryon Edwards)

Fables, like parables, are more ancient than formal arguments and are often the most effective means of presenting and impressing both truth and duty.

Tryon Edwards

Related topics

ancient duty effective formal truth means

Related quotes

If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth. View quote
Emil Cioran
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them. View quote
Umberto Eco
By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth. View quote
Yukio Mishima
Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth. View quote
Swami Vivekananda