Quotes About Truth

Pursued alone, any single model will lead to distortions. It will misplace the accent, and thus entail consequences that are not valid.

Science isn't about getting the most Likes

Those who deny the first principle should be flogged or burned until they admit that it is not the same thing to be burned and not burned, or whipped and not whipped.

To make things 'perfectly clear' is reactionary and stupefying. The real is not perfectly clear.

The Bible is familiar, life is strange. We bring the two together, to shed light on life.

The real subject of this Book of the Wilderness, I suggest, is the longing of the people of Israel to learn directly from God, by learning something new about the Torah, about the world and themselves. What they are developing in their skeptical discourse is a language of imaginative truth, in which the fantasies of return to Egypt will be brought into connection with the miracles of Exodus. In them, traumatic suffering and traumatic revelation seek some subjective expression.

We invent for ourselves the major part of experience," Nietzsche says in Beyond Good and Evil.

You like me for who i am, you don't like me for who i am, and all you can get is who i am.

In Wahrheit hat sehr vieles mit dem meisten etwas zu tun, nur nicht der Satz »Dies hat mit jenem nichts zu tun« mit Nachdenken und Differenziertheit.

Bear true witness, even if it be against yourselves, your parents or your family.

Excision of my genitals didn't eliminate the human sex drive, and neither did the fear of hellfire. Repression only led to hypocrisy and lying, strategies that corrupt the human individual, and it failed to protect people from unwanted pregnancy and disease. The

some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.

You have to deal with the world as it is and not as you want it to be

For today, it seems, speaking the truth about Islam is a crime. "Hate speech" is the modern term for heresy.

However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.

Reality is not easy, but all this make-believe doesn't make it easier.

By presenting a faithful and honest record of my experience as a mother, I hope to show both my readers and my children how truth can redeem even what you fear might be the gravest of sins.

People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it- walk.

What do you know and how do you know it

Don't fool yourself, my dear. You're much worse than a bitch. You're a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses to see.

Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.