Quotes About Truth

beliefs. A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.

Something is still missing from this story: the answers need to be fitted to the original questions.

Familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.

Wir sind immer in Geschichten

Die Dinge sind, wie sie sind, und wenn wir sie erkennen, sind sie genauso, wie wenn es andere tun oder keiner.

What should he do if word went around that in his throne room hung a magic picture that only the highborn could see, but he couldn't? Of course there was no picture there, it had been one of the fool's jokes, but now that the canvas hung there, it had developed its own power.

Johanna non sarebbe mai venuta a sapere di quelle visite, lo aveva giurato a se stesso, avrebbe mentito perfino sotto tortura. Era tenuto ad allontanare da lei ogni dolore, non a dirle la verità. Sapere è doloroso. Non passava giorno senza che si augurasse di avere meno conoscenza.

Auf dem Rückweg fragte er sich, ob je ein Tag kommen würde, an dem Menschen miteinander umgehen könnten, ohne zu lügen.

Arthur, sie ziehen die Grenzen zu eng. Ich verrate Ihnen ein Geheimnis, ein sehr großes und streng gehütetes Geheimnis, von dem alle wissen, außer Ihnen. Das hier ist ein Traum. Ich meine das nicht philosophisch, Gott bewahre! Es ist wirklich einer. Und zwar Ihrer. Wir alle gehören dazu, jeder von uns ist Ihre Erfindung. Wenn Sie aufwachen, sind wir weg, nichts mehr, gelöscht, es hat uns nie gegeben.

Of course it didn't prove anything of the sort, it merely showed that self-examination disturbs the personality, deflects the will, and zaps the mind; it proved that no one, seen clearly from the outside, resembles themselves at all.

Pitao sam se da li bi ljudi koji tako rado govore o dostojanstvu u ovakvoj situaciji mogli sa?uvati red i pristojnost. Što se mene ti?e, ja sam ostao na tepihu ose?aju?i da živim trenutak u kome mi je sve potaman, u kome nisam pocepan, u kome sam u sebi jedinstven i spokojan. A onda mi je u deli?u sekunde na pamet pala misao da i u ovoj sobi možda postoji kamera, a sa njom se odmah pojavio i Laurin lik i ose?aj krivice što je varam i stalno lažem.

Now I understand that one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.

Actors are good liars, writers are good liars with good memories.

Epistemology: The study of knowledge. It basically asks, What is a rational test for knowability? How can we know for certain what is real? How can we know which propositions are true and which are not? What are basic principles of certainty? Epistemology attempts to lay down the line between knowledge and mere belief. It is one of the main topics of philosophy, along with logic, ethics, and metaphysics.

Rationalism: In epistemology, the theory that truth begins and ends in the mind, not in the senses. It is the ultimate intellectualism, claiming that everything can be figured out deductively. For this to be so, reality has to have an intrinsically logical design; then all we have to do is really think about something and its nature will reveal itself right inside our beans.

I felt that I was finally facing a fundamental fact of life: that everything is transient and loss is inevitable; that is just the way it is. Since most of the time I try to ignore this immutable fact, finally embracing it bore the sweetness of embracing Truth. And embracing that truth, painful as it is, can make me feel more authentically alive.

Don't be discouraged by negative thoughts that may arise unbidden in your mind. You may feel like you should not say or do things that do not feel true in your heart, but such thoughts are destructive and violate biblical secrets of ancient Jewish wisdom.

A belief is not a fact; it is simply what we believe.

We all need narrative to make sense of the world.

and what he knows and we know (Odysseus), the poet introduces an important theme that will continue to grow throughout his poem, which is: What is the difference between who we are and what others know about us? This tension between anonymity and identity will be a

If you want to know what the English really think about consumption, ignore what they say, but look at what they do.

All that is proscribed, all that is upheld, the yogas based on such limbs as the control of breath or other things, all that is false.

The desire to be wholly available to life suffices. You do not have to be involved in, or to practice, or to believe anything whatsoever. The ultimate things present themselves in such a simple way that it is enough to experience them by yourself.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own set of facts.