It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.
Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don't want to hear it.
There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives.
Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!
There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.
Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.
I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time.