Quotes About Truth

You might think that shifting your thoughts is as easy as setting your mind to it. But stressful thoughts aren't held in place through choice or will power. They're held in place through perceived truth value.

Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that we'd say were unforgiveable in a novel (he was careful to distance himself from these in his autobiographical fiction).

Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.

I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand people read, or just privileged people read. I want to write a book whose emotional truth people can understand. For me, that's what it's about.

The world tells us in a thousand different ways that the bigger we become, the freer we will be. The richer, the more beautiful, and the more powerful we grow, the more security, liberty, and happiness we will experience. And yet, the gospel tells us just the opposite, that the smaller we become, the freer we will be.

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They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder but you have question the beholder when he or she is delusional.

Never tell a lie, unless it's funny

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

Really, there's hardly anything to say about anything. I mean, you could say it all, all that mattered, in a few sentences.

You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.

You should always believe all you read in the newspapers, as this makes them more interesting.

Which matters more to you, God or pretty illusions that you've been taught in God's name? (Or have you been clinging to the austere illusion of emptiness?) Consequences will flow from your choice.

Empaths are driven to constantly seek more spiritual truth. We're fascinated by those aspects of life that are the least obvious, the most secret, sacred, and tender. Our search is helped by sensitivity, yet not defined by it.

You must take into account the actual distinction between truth and fact. It is beyond all human power to tell all the facts. Your whole lifetime spent at nothing else would not tell all the facts of one morning in your life, just any ordinary morning when you get up, dress, get breakfast and wash the dishes. Facts are infinite in number. The truth is a meaning underlying them; you tell the truth by selecting the facts to illustrate it.

Yet twenty-two hundred years ago, there were scientists. Before Rome was an outlaw's camp in the far west, Aristotle was saying, "If a man grasps truths that can not be other than they are, in the way in which he grasps the definitions through which demonstrations take place, he will not have opinion, but knowledge.

The real truth is, I just want to keep the voice of dissent alive in all of our elections. I don't really want to hang out with politicians. I'd rather go straight to hell, and not collect $200.

Like deathbed conversions, last paragraph soul-saving does not convince.

Instead of casting politics as a semireligious debate about truth, it would be preferable to see the subject as a dispute among reasonable people who disagreed.

Don't ever trust anyone who's writing a book. They make up lies for a living.

Being in on the secret might be a lot of fun when you're a kid, but not so much once you realize how often life hinges on everyone agreeing--at least outwardly--on the same reality.

The fantastic cannot exist independently of that 'real' world which it seems to find frustratingly finite.

Fascism counts on people's credulity, on their craving to believe, on their fear that there is nothing to believe.

You can't hide from your egg, Max.