I wanted to spend my life observing truth and replicating it on stage". Theater in South America, NYC, etc.
There is a grain of acutely observed truth in even the smallest details: the judge's attention to those radiators becomes a barometer of his agility.
In May 1915 Gandhi founded a satyagraha ashram at Ahmedabad with 25 inmates, who took vows to observe truth, nonviolence, celibacy and fearlessness; to practise self-control; to work for the removal of untouchability and for education through the mother tongue; and to wear only khadi (hand-spun and hand-woven cloth).
I love to observe truth in people, and to be amongst people who walk their talk.
For decades, the response to global climate change was expected to look much like the response to the ozone hole: scientists would make predictions and support them with observations, and the world, prompted by those observed truths, would agree on a solution similar to the Montreal Protocol, the international agreement on C.F.C.s that was originally signed in 1987.
His TV show currently exists in a genre all by itself; bittersweet vignettes shot through with self-deprecation and acutely observed truths that also manage to be bladder-burstingly funny.
Strauss himself observes the truth of this, but only in the context of trying to deny that sargers actually hate women.
And yet, as Simon Blackburn observes in "Truth: A Guide" (Oxford; $25), the "brand-name" Anglophone philosophers of the past fifty years — Wittgenstein, W. V. Quine, Thomas Kuhn, Donald Davidson, Richard Rorty — have developed powerful arguments that seem to undermine the commonsense notion of truth as agreement with reality.
Cooper observes, "In truth, it seems that Napoleon never gave more than absent minded thoughts to the obviously complicated problem presented by that too distant island" (SFHR, 111).
One man who observed the truth up close, four years before the Khmer Rouge came to power, was a French ethnologist called François Bizot.
