Quotes About Truth

The value of literature lies in these intermittent 'true impressions.' A novel moves back and forth between the world of objects, of actions, of appearances, and that other world, from which these 'true impressions' come and which moves us to believe that the good we hang on to so tenaciously—in the face of evil, so obstinately—is no illusion.

Vrlo osebujan tip lu?aka vjeruje da ?e usaditi svoja na?ela. (...) U?itelji stvarnosti. Oni žele da vam daju poruku - da vas kazne poukom - o Stvarnom.

To - to uto?ište mogao je imati, vjerovao je, da samo kaže jednu rije?. Zašto onda ne kaže tu rije?? Zato što bi današnje uto?ište moglo biti sutrašnja tamnica.

Jer kad ?emo mi civilizirana bi?a postati ozbiljni? upitao je Kierkegaard. Tek pošto dokraja i temeljito upoznamo pakao. Bez toga ?e hedonizam i lakomislenost proširiti pakao na sve naše dane.

Pretpostavimo da sam ja apsolutno u pravu a da monsignor, na primjer, ima potpuno krivo. Ako sam ja u pravu, problem suvislosti svijeta, i sva odgovornost za nju, postaju moji.

Mislio je: Draže mi je prihvatiti kao motiv ne nešto što potpuno razumijem, nego ono što napola razumijem. Skrajnja jasno?a objašnjenja za mene je neiskrena.

She has two husbands. Whose are the kids? The fellow detected her and she gave a signed confession that two of the four children were not the father's.

True. All too true. I have never been at home in life. All my decay has taken place upon a child.

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

The good are attracted by men's perceptions and think not for themselves. You must cleanse the gates of vision by self-knowledge, by experience. Besides which, opposition is true friendship.

if you must be pitiable, sue for aid and succor, you will put yourself always, inevitably, in the hands of these angry spirits. Blasting you with their "truth.

The true soul is the one that pays the price. It suffers and gets sick, and it realizes that the pretender can't be loved.

Siguran sam da ste bili iskreni. Ne neiskreni. Prava neiskrenost rijetko se sre?e.

And truth is true only as it brings down more disgrace and dreariness upon human beings, so that if it shows anything except evil it is illusion, and not truth.

All who live are in despair.(?) And that is the sickness unto death.(?) It is that a man refuses to be what he is.(?)

It is better to die what you are than to live a stranger forever

Mind you, I'm a great admirer of our species. I stand in awe of the genius of the race. But a large part of this genius is devoted to lying and seeming what you are not.

Reality instructors. They want to teach you – to punish you with – the lessons of the Real.

Ona je manje kurva od ve?ine drugih. Svi smo mi kurve na ovom svijetu, to upamti. Ja jako dobro znam da sam ja kurva. A ti si teški mamlaz, to mi postaje jasno. Bar mi tako govore intelektualci. Ali kladim se s tobom za bilo šta da si i ti kurva.

No, the truth must be something we understand at once, without an introduction or explanation, but so common and familiar that we don't always realize it's around us.

But I think I have made myself clear. We are as ignorant of fundamentals as human beings ever were. Self-respect demands that we appear to be "with

One of the paradoxes of writing is that when you write non-fiction everyone tries to prove that it's wrong, and when you publish fiction, everyone tries to see the truth in it.

Not all events are stories.

a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself.