The history of humanity is also a history of excavating hidden facts.

Facts show a different face depending on how they are written.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

-- Ernest Hemingway

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

-- George Orwell

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

-- Thomas Mann

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

-- Mark Twain

Wisdom that comes only after hearing another's opinion is not true wisdom.

-- Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Beauty is always discovered in the actualities of living.

-- Jun'ichirō Tanizaki