Quotes About Reality

You don't get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?

Jokes? There are no jokes. The truth is the funniest joke of all.

And they'll vote for me because I'm the best liar, because I do it honestly, with a certain finesse. They know that lies and truth are very close, and that something beautiful rests between.

Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.

The worlds of Truth (love) and illusion (fear) are like parallel universes; with every thought we make a choice which one to inhabit

Your mind and a computer have one thing in common: neither of them know the difference between the truth... and what you tell it.

There is at least one thing more brutal than the truth, and that is the consequence of saying less than the truth.

To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.

It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

You get so used to lying that after a while it's hard to remember what the truth is.

Its very seldom you get paid for doing what you love and telling the truth at the same time. It seems they dont often coincide.

People don't want to know the truth.

Sincerity is not test of truth-no evidence of correctness of conduct. You may take poison sincerely believing it the needed medicine, but will it save your life?

The sense of truth no matter how subjective is necessary for the experience of beauty.

Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.

In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood.

No one is entitled to the truth.

I think that in a general sense, the idea of getting comfortable with the truth in life is uncomfortable.

An honest lie is better than a boring truth.

I don't think there's anything wrong with telling the truth. I know it isn't fashionable.

A person obsessed with ultimate truth is a person asking to be relieved of money.

Even when the facts are available, most people seem to prefer the legend, and refuse to believe the truth when it in any way dislodges the myth.

All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.

I tell you the truth, any object you have in your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost Truth.