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Quotes About Reality

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
~ F. H. Bradley
Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.
~ Iris Murdoch
Truth may sometimes hurt, but delusion harms.
~ Vanna Bonta
Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.
~ Socrates
Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie.
~ Paul Scott
Somewhere between the honest truth and the deceptive lie is the deceptive truth and the honest lie.
~ Robert Breault
Personally, I don't give a rap for documents; for the truth in my eyes is not in them but in the mind.
~ Luigi Pirandello
In all the illusions, you're the only truth that I need
~ Nora Roberts
The truth isn't so simple. Death may be inevitable, but love is not. Love, you have to choose.
~ Hillary Jordan
The only "definitive truth" for Buddhism is the absolute negation of any one truth as the Definitive Truth.
~ Dalai Lama
Lies always come first, dragging fools along by their irreparable vulgarity. Truth always lags last, limping along on the arm of time.
~ Baltasar Gracian
The Bernie Mac Show' is my life. It's the truth, and I'm not ashamed of a minute, an hour, or a second of my life.
~ Bernie Mac
I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired.
~ Janis Ian
The truth is always simpler than you can imagine.
~ Christopher Pike
The truth about our own modest contribution might immobilize us: much easier then, to tell ourselves a story about how much we make our own reality.
~ David Whyte
Truth - An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Novelists tell that piece of truth hidden at the bottom of every lie.
~ Italo Calvino
The poets are almost always wrong about the facts... That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth...
~ William Faulkner
Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don't know the difference. George: No, but we must carry on as though we did. Martha: Amen.
~ Edward Albee
Alas, the spheres of truth are less transparent than those of illusion.
~ L. E. J. Brouwer
Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.
~ Virginia Woolf
Truth is always a delusion.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
According to convention there is a sweet and a bitter, a hot and a cold, and according to convention, there is an order. In truth, there are atoms and a void.
~ Democritus
The truth is generally seen, rarely heard.
~ Baltasar Gracian