Quotes About Truth

Writers are liars trying to come clean. That's why the best ones are the most tragic.

Literature is the product of a deep-seated need for honesty. Hence, those who lie most are struck most deeply by it, and those who are honest have no need for it.

Those who do not preach life but live it do not smile to the lily near the bank; they look for stones and hang on.

Our most cultural state is one of total certainty—which is the reason those of us who are most certain are those who are most out of touch with nature (i.e., reality).

No philosopher was ever apathetic. If there is no love, it is not philosophy.

Writers are compulsive liars desperately trying to tell themselves the truth.

It is said that the depressive has a clearer view of reality than does the euphoric. Perhaps, but the euphoric has a clearer view of life.

Finally, it's not the lies we tell others that do the most damage, it's those we tell ourselves. From this all troubles rise.

Philosophy itself should not be merely "the pursuit of the knowledge of the truth" but should offer a practical guide for ordinary people in their everyday lives.

A free press is the greatest guarantee of a free society. We must keep it alive. We have to tolerate obnoxious opinions. But I don't want only opinions. I want facts.

There are things that are not yet true today, perhaps we dare not find them true, but tomorrow they may be. So every man whose fate is to go his individual way must proceed with hopefulness and watchfulness, ever conscious of his loneliness and its dangers

To Jung, the purpose of life was to realize one's own potential, to follow one's own perception of the truth, and to become a whole person in one's own right. This was the goal of individuation, as he later called it. If he was to keep faith with himself, he had to go his own way: it would have been impossible for him to spend his life playing second fiddle in a two-man band.

There are things that are not yet true today, perhaps we dare not fine them true, but tomorrow they may be. So every man whose fate it is to go his individual way must proceed with hopefulness and watchfulness, ever conscious of his loneliness and its dangers

Was your old man in the war?" "He was in the air force. He built runways." "The fucking air farce. He ever tell you about it? Did he live?" "Yes, he lived. He spoke once about Vietnam." "If he only spoke about it once, he wasn't lying.

One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.

When we choose to live authentically we chip away at others prisons of pretend and create an opportunity for them to walk out of darkness into freedom.

It's better to live one day on this planet being true to yourself than an entire lifetime which is a lie

It is better to live one day on the planet being true to yourself than an entire lifetime which is a lie.

Sometimes, the words we speak are not the words we want to say.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

Concibe la memoria involuntaria como el lugar de la palabra verdadera, pero mientras el filósofo tropieza con esa intuición, el novelista, desplazando los contornos de la lengua, nos la hará comprender.

Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.