Anne Louise Germaine de Staël - Truth Quotes

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Frankness consists in always telling the truth, but not always all the truth.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

The search for the truth is the noblest of occupations, and its publication a duty.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

Love is above the laws, above the opinion of men; it is the truth, the flame, the pure element, the primary idea of the moral world.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

In the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

It seems to me that life's circumstances, being ephemeral, teach us less about durable truths than the fictions based on those truths; and that the best lessons of delicacy and self-respect are to be found in novels where the feelings are so naturally portrayed that you fancy you are witnessing real life as you read.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

The mathematics lead us to lay out of account all that is not proved; while the primitive truths, those which sentiment and genius apprehend, are not susceptible of demonstration.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël