I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
Interpretation
This quote expresses a deep appreciation for truth, freedom, and the beauty of language and tolerance.
Stephen Fry articulates a profound commitment to core values such as truth, freedom, and the appreciation of language. By describing himself as a 'lover of truth' and a 'worshipper of freedom,' he emphasizes the importance of these ideals in a world often marred by misinformation and intolerance, portraying language as a sacred tool that can foster understanding and purity among individuals.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of honesty in journalism, one might say, 'As Stephen Fry once expressed, I am a lover of truth...'
I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what I sensed was the enormity of the power I possessed. Not magical power, but real power. The power simply to go on, the power to endure, that is power enough, but I felt I had also the power to create, to add, to delight, to amaze and to transform.
To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.
There comes a time when the blankness of the future is just so extreme, it's like such a black wall of nothingness. Not of bad things like a cave full of monsters and so, you're afraid of entering it. It's just nothingness, the void, emptiness and it is just horrible. It's like contemplating a future-less future and so you just want to step out of it. The monstrosity of being alive overwhelms you.
As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it'll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.
It's now very common to hear people say 'I'm rather offended by that'.
You can't just say there is a God because well, the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children. You have to account for the fact that almost all animals in the wild live under stress with not enough to eat and will die violent and bloody deaths. There is not any way that you can just choose the nice bits and say that means there is a God and ignore the true fact of what nature is.
America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity - the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
There can be no compromise between freedom and government controls; to accept 'just a few controls' is to surrender the principle of inalienable individual rights and to substitute for it the principle of the government’s unlimited, arbitrary power, thus delivering oneself into gradual enslavement. As an example of this process, observe the present domestic policy of the United States.
Law and its instrument, government, are necessary to the peace and safety of all of us, but all of us, unless we live the lives of mud turtles, frequently find them arrayed against us.
I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system - that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.
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