Quotes About Reality

We must explain the truth: There is no free lunch.

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge.

People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen.

I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.

It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.

The truth will make you odd.

What's the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?

Why would anybody lie? The truth is always more colourful.

If we can revert to the truth, then a great deal of one's suffering can be erased, because a great deal of one's suffering is based on sheer lies.

The closer to the truth, the better the lie, and the truth itself, when it can be used, is the best lie.

The problem with assumptions is that we believe they are the truth.

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

There are many levels of truth.

Well, the truth is, if you really listen to that bird on your shoulder, if you accept that you can die at any time–then you might not be as ambitious as you are.

Which side of the blade is sharper? The lie or the truth? It all seems irrelevant when your jugular is sliced open and you're lying in a pool of blood for the whole world to see.

We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren't true. It's always better with the truth.

Listen to my story and everything will come out true

Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.

Being happy or unhappy - is that really the most important thing? Knowing the truth would be a different kind of happiness - a more satisfying kind, I think, even if it turned out to be a sad kind.

The truth is always multiplex.

Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren't real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.

Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective—even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth.