Quotes About Truth

Die Welt der Kunst & Fantasie ist die einzig wahre. The rest is a nightmare!

Es ist nichts so absurd, daß Gläubige es nicht glaubten. Oder Beamte täten.

It occurred to me that his words had a shadow. Or teeth and claws, and blood. Some kind of invisible whip. How words can be a trap, a trick and a net, not for butterflies or birds, or lions! The things that words promise.

We all need someone to point out that the emperor is wearing no clothes. That's the poet's job.

We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.

main trouble with the average individuals of present-day civilization is that they refuse to think. They prefer "mob thinking". Because everybody else does it, it must be right. The real facts prove the opposite to be the case.

Whatever cannot be seen, conceived at once, thru simple reasoning is humbug, and not science!

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

The expression of personality in art had been sought after and appreciated long before anyone had realized that art was based no longer on an objective What but on a subjective How. Long after it had become a self-confession, people still continued to talk about the objective truth in art, although it was precisely the self-expressionism in art which enabled it to win through to general recognition.

Every honest attempt to discover the truth and depict things faithfully is a struggle against one's own subjectivity and partiality, one's individual and class interests; one can seek to become aware of these as a source of error, while realizing that they can never be finally excluded.

Football is not a game but a religion, a metaphysical island of fundamental truth in a highly verbalized, disguised society, a throwback of 30,000 generations of anthropological time.

One of my movies was called 'True Lies.' It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.

Well, how do you understand things or people? It is a question Shreve himself asks, and then answers by referring precisely to Sutpen's opposite number, the little dream-woman Rosa Coldfield: "What was it the old dame, the Aunt Rosa, told you about how there are some things that just have to be whether they are or not, have to be a damn sight more than some other things that maybe

Alle waarheid deed pijn, maar wel steeds meer, elk jaar een beetje meer.

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

Just when you think there's nothing to write about, Nixon says, 'I am not a crook.' Jimmy Carter says, 'I have lusted after women in my heart.' President Reagan says, 'I have just taken a urinalysis test, and I am not on dope.'

It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us in trouble. It's the things we know that ain't so.

Uneven! Easy to say! As if you could always go straight to the point!

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

COMMENTO DI CHURCHILL SULL'UOMO A volte l'uomo inciampa nella verità, ma nella maggior parte dei casi si rialzerà e continuerà per la sua strada.

He was a terror to any snake that came in his path, whether it was the cold, slimy reptile sliding along the ground or the more dangerous snake that oppresses men through false teachings. And he drove the snakes out of the minds of men, snakes of superstition and brutality and cruelty.