Absolute Truth, For Beginners Quotes

“Before meeting her I believed that knowing the truth was the same as having the right answer, which in turn corresponded to a complex scientific theory.”
― Katarina West, Absolute Truth, For Beginners

“at times it matters more how you formulate your question, and not what its solution is, because that can be just a question of mathematical skills. What counts is intuition, the ability to see old problems from a new angle.’ Lately”
― Katarina West, Absolute Truth, For Beginners

“Honesty n. Silence is golden, but honesty is eternal.”
― Katarina West, Absolute Truth, For Beginners

“What matters is that something matters,’ he replies philosophically, ‘and it’s for you to find out what that something is.”
― Katarina West, Absolute Truth, For Beginners

“it’s easier to be married to a man with a career than to a man with a calling.’ I”
― Katarina West, Absolute Truth, For Beginners

“why else do I feel that I have lost my faith in rationality? Had it been the truth and nothing but the truth, I would not have needed faith to begin with. I”
― Katarina West, Absolute Truth, For Beginners

“Where did Judith’s most ground-breaking intuitions come from? Did they come from the realm of logic and rationality? Or from a world beyond it, the very same that had inspired Bach to compose his fugues, and the Impressionists to capture life in all of its fleeting nature?”
― Katarina West, Absolute Truth, For Beginners

“Theory… is all that matters. The rest is stamp collecting.’ J.H. Shapiro cited in Nature”
― Katarina West, Absolute Truth, For Beginners