TRUTH QUOTES VII

quotations about truth

Since the world drifts into delirium, we must adopt a delirious point of view. We must no longer assume any principle of truth, of causality, or any discursive norm. Instead, we must grant both the poetic singularity of events and the radical uncertainty of events.

JEAN BAUDRILLARD

The Vital Illusion

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If man refused to believe those truths which were not made evident to his reason, he could not live among his fellows, nor could he make the slightest progress in civilization.

SABINE BARING-GOULD

The Origin and Development of Religious Belief: Christianity

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Hide what you have to hide
And tell what you have to tell
You'll see your problems multiplied
If you continually decide
To faithfully pursue
The policy of truth

DEPECHE MODE

"Policy of Truth"

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Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

AESOP

Fables

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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.

IRVIN D. YALOM

When Nietzsche Wept

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All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final number.

YEVGENY ZAMYATIN

On Literature, Revolution, Entropy, and Other Matters

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The Truth is inseparable from who you are. Yes, you are the Truth. If you look for it elsewhere, you will be deceived every time.

ECKHART TOLLE

A New Earth

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The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true.

NICHOLSON BAKER

U and I

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The color of truth is grey.

ANDRE GIDE

Autumn Leaves

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The truth is always the same ... and the wants of the human heart are not widely different.

LYMAN ABBOTT

Laicus: Or, The Experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish

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I would then like to know how it comes about that when each piece of a story is true, the whole story turns out to be false?

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

debate with Stephen Douglas, September 18, 1858

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There is no room for absolute truth upon any subject whatsoever, in a world as finite and conditioned as man is himself. But there are relative truths, and we have to make the best we can of them.

HELENA PETROVNA BLAVATSKY

Lucifer


The only way to the truth is through blasphemy.

FLANNERY O'CONNOR

Wise Blood

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Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation, because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth, than to refine themselves.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

GRAHAM GREENE

Travels with My Aunt


One handles truths like dynamite.

ANAÏS NIN

The Diary of Anais Nin

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My uniform experience has convinced me that there is no other God than Truth.

MAHATMA GANDHI

An Autobiography

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In a free society, there comes a time when the truth -- however hard it may be to hear, however impolitic it may seem to say -- must be told.

AL GORE

fundraising letter, May 2006

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If you can't tell the truth to the people you care about the most, eventually you stop being able to tell the truth to yourself.

CASSANDRA CLARE

City of Ashes

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The wayfarer,
Perceiving the pathway to truth,
Was struck with astonishment.
It was thickly grown with weeds.
"Ha," he said,
"I see that none has passed here
In a long time."
Later he saw that each weed
Was a singular knife.
"Well," he mumbled at last,
"Doubtless there are other roads."

STEPHEN CRANE

"The Wayfarer"

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