11 Metaphors for truest

But the true is the object not only of conception and feeling, as in religionand of intuition, as in artbut also of the thinking faculty; and this gives us the third form of the union in questionphilosophy.

The true is Godlike; we do not see it itself; we must guess at it through its manifestations.

Barnaby True was a good, honest boy, as boys go, but yet was he not ever allowed altogether to forget that his grandfather had been that very famous pirate, Captain William Brand, who, after so many marvellous adventures (if one may believe the catchpenny stories and ballads that were writ about him), was murdered in Jamaica by Captain John Malyoe, the commander of his own consort, the Adventure galley.

As true as death, before all the crowd of folk, he put his arm round her waist and called her his sweetheart, and love, and dearie, and darling, and everything that is fine.

By the aid of my notes I could very easily remember everything that had taken place during my absence, and it was recorded in regular form, with day and date, not an incident of any importance left out, and every word as true as gospel.

A picture, a poem, should be as true as nature itself; but at the same time it should lay stress on whatever forms the unique character of its subject by drawing out all its essential manifestations, and by rejecting everything that is unessential and accidental.

The criterion of truth is insufficient, for Spinoza and Leibnitz built up their opposing theoriesthe pantheism of the one and the monadology of the otherfrom equally clear and distinct conceptions; tried by this standard individualism is just as true as pantheism.

By a singular combination of circumstances and qualities, which is, however, no less true than perplexing, the merchants of Newport were becoming, at the same time, both slave-dealers and gentlemen.

"It's the balance of them cusses that had the boys, as true as preachin," exclaimed Jerry.

But this is less true of modern socialism than of its antithesis, and it becomes less and less true as socialism, under an enormous torrent of criticism, slowly washes itself clean from the mass of partial statement, hasty misstatement, sheer error and presumption that obscured its first emergence.

As true as steel.

11 Metaphors for  truest