Mission Statement

Pebbles, Beadnell

The aim of science is the discovery of truth while the aim of literature is the production of pleasure.

A. E. Housman

There is a moral as well as material truth,—a truth of impression as well as of form,—of thought as well as of matter; and the truth of impression and thought is a thousand times the more important of the two.

John Ruskin

The contemplation of things as they are, without substitution or imposture, without error or confusion, is in itself a nobler thing than the whole harvest of invention.

Francis Bacon

How can there be two sorts of “fact” one cooly objective, the other fraught, diverse and emotive?

Stephen Franklin

Right now, I could name at least ten ideas I would have found intolerable or incomprehensible and frightening, except as they came after dreams and poems. This is not idle fantasy, but a disciplined attention to the true meaning of "it feels right to me."

Audre Lorde

The essential business of language is to assert or deny facts.

Bertrand Russel

Truth is contrary to our nature, not so error, and this for a very simple reason: truth demands that we should recognize ourselves as limited; error flatters us that, in one way or another, we are unlimited.

Goethe

The passion for truth is the faintest of all human passions.

Tom Stoppard

We have severely underestimated the Russians, the extent of the country and the treachery of the climate. This is the revenge of reality.

Heinz Guderian

Timon consulted someone about his children’s education. ‘Let them,’ this man said, ‘be taught matters they will never understand.’

Goethe