Quotes About Truth

All observations of life are harsh, because life is.

Si sólo es un cuento, parece menos espantoso.

In the burned house I am eating breakfast. You understand? There is no house, there is no breakfast, yet here I am

It must have been then that I began to lose faith in reasonable argument as the sole measure of truth.

knowledge is power, especially discreditable knowledge.

Is it real? No, it is not real. What is this not real? Not real can tell us about real.

you don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know can hurt you very much.

And the Internet was such a jumble of false and true factoids that no one believed what was on it any more, or else they believed all of it, which amounted to the same thing.

The living bird is not its labeled bones.

Perhaps they'll say, These things are not real. They are phantasmagoria. They were made by dreams, and now that no one is dreaming them any longer they are crumbling away.

Just because people are related to you doesn't mean you love them

I'm all ears," she said. An untruth—her ears were a small part of her—but I let that pass.

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it. Impossible, of course.

Another of those things that must be true because everyone else agrees they are, although they don't seem so to me.

She said, What you don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know an hurt you very much.

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read.

People always forget about prophecies unless they come true.

Unlike some other religions, we have never felt it served a higher purpose to lie to children about geology.

But I'm ravenous for news, any kind of news; even if it's false news, it must mean something.

Northrop] Frye was concerned mostly with literary criticism, and myths interested him as structural elements in works of literature. He used the word myth to mean story, without attaching any connotation of truth or falsehood to it; but a myth is a story of a certain kind. The myths of a culture are those stories it takes seriously—the ones that are thought to be a key to its identity.

there are some things that do not fare well in high definition.

It's like Janine, though, to take it upon herself, to decide the baby's flaws were due to her alone. But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.

They'd like to see through me, but nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency.

None of them were the men we knew. The newspaper stories were like dreams to us, bad dreams dreamt by others.