Frederick Niecks quotes

“But the involuntary tricks of memory and the voluntary ones of imagination make always such terrible havoc of facts that truth, be it ever so much sought and cared for, appears in history and biography only in a more or less disfigured condition.”
-- Frederick Niecks

Source : Frederick Niecks (2016). “Frederick Chopin”, p.709, Frederick Niecks

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“Every one disguising the truth from a man who has a right to the truth is wrong, and ought not to be encouraged.”

“The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful. The surest way to end them is to establish beyond question what should be the purpose and method of a philosophical enquiry. And this is by no means so difficult a task as the history of philosophy would lead one to suppose. For if there are any questions which science leaves it to philosophy to answer, a straightforward process of elimination must lead to their discovery.”

“There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'”

“Last night I'd made love to a woman for the first and last time. It had been amazing and I had a memory that would shape the rest of my life.”

“I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are.”

Source : Rosemary Altea (2008). “A Matter of Life and Death: Remarkable True Stories of Hope and Healing”, p.203, Penguin

“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.”

“Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently ... It is that which feels & discovers what is, the REAL which we see not, which exists not for our senses... Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things... Imagination too shows what is ... Hence she is or should be especially cultivated by the truly Scientific, those who wish to enter into the worlds around us!”

“The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.”

“This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.”

“When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.