Famous quotes containing the words false and/or step:
“Whereas the comic confronts simply logical contradictions, the tragic confronts a moral predicament. Not minor matters of true and false but crucial questions of right and wrong, good and evil face the tragic character in a tragic situation.”
—Marie Collins Swabey. Comic Laughter, ch. 7, Yale University Press (1961)
“I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)