Contrarian Quotes

“In the end, truth as it is, and not as so many have described it to serve their own ends, can only be the open acceptance of what is. Not what we remember, not what we hope for, not what we fear, not what we love … but what is. Nothing more and nothing less. For the truths that men claim, in their vaunted principles, and in the governments that they have built based on those principles, and will build long after I am gone, are all part of the grand illusion that words can describe all of what exists.”
― L.E. Modesitt Jr., Contrarian