Quotes About Truth

YE SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH, AND THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU MAD. —Aldous Huxley

Bad eyes are only one bane of clear vision: bad assumptions

people have an unfortunate habit of assuming they understand the reality just because they understood the analogy.

Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors. If self-deception promotes fitness, the brain lies. Stops noticing—irrelevant things. Truth never matters. Only fitness. By now you don't experience the world as it exists at all. You experience a simulation built from assumptions. Shortcuts. Lies.

Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors. If self-deception promotes fitness, the brain lies. Stops noticing—irrelevant things. Truth never matters. Only fitness. By now you don't experience the world as it exists at all. You experience a simulation built from assumptions. Shortcuts. Lies. Whole species is agnosiac by default. Rorschach does nothing to you that you don't already do to yourselves.

We can use logic when we want to, of course. We have tools of reason at our command; but according to at least some experts1 we have those tools not to glean truth from falsehood but to help us win arguments; to make others do what we want; to use as a weapon. It's rhetoric and manipulation that evolution selected for: logic just tagged along as a side effect. Sweeping oratory, rational debate, it's all just a way to bend others to your will.

Comforting lies get far too easy with practice.

Like to hear a vampire folk tale?" Sarasti asked. "Vampires have folk tales?" He took it for a yes. "A laser is assigned to find the darkness. Since it lives in a room without doors, or windows, or any other source of light, it thinks this will be easy. But everywhere it turns it sees brightness. Every wall, every piece of furniture it points at is brightly lit. Eventually it concludes there is no darkness, that light is everywhere.

REALITY IS THAT WHICH, WHEN YOU STOP BELIEVING IN IT, DOESN'T GO AWAY. —PHILIP K. DICK

once you recognize that every human model of reality is fundamentally unreal, then it all just comes down to which one works best.

Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors.

Truth had never been a priority. If believing a lie kept the genes proliferating, the system would believe that lie with all its heart.

Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors. If self-deception promotes fitness, the brain lies. Stops noticing—irrelevant things. Truth never matters. Only fitness. By now you don't experience the world as it exists at all. You experience a simulation built from assumptions. Shortcuts. Lies. Whole species is agnosiac by default.

properly basic belief' is any belief that's rational to hold without its being based on any other beliefs

Nüzhet bana yalan söyledi. Dünyan?n hiç bir Nüzhet'i yalan söylememelidir.

Öyle bir ya?tayd?m ve öyle bir mizaçtayd?m ve çocuklu?umda o kadar az oyun oynam??t?m ve aldatmas?n? o kadar az ö?renmi?tim ki, yalan bana suçlar?n en a??r? gibi geliyordu; ve bir yalan söylendi?i zaman insanlar?n de?il, e?yan?n bile buna nas?l tahammül etti?ine ?a??yordum.

Izd?rab?n verdi?i intibah zamanlar?nda, kendi kendini aldatmak, ba?kalar?n? kand?rmak kadar basit de?ildir ve insan kendi içindeki adaletten ürkmeye ba?lar.

Ah ben ruhumun içindeki o ikinci ruhu bilirim, esrar? gören gözleriyle ve esrar? duyan kulaklar?yla her ?eyi sezer ve bana sezdirir ve beni aldatamaz, ah, içim beni aldatmaz.

demek ki namussuzluk müstesna ki, namussuzluklar haber oluyor

Ben daima hayal içinde ya??yorum, fakat... hakikat... beni her yerde koval?yor ve kar??ma ç?k?yor.

Bir taraf?n hatas? gerçe?i 'hususi ve ferdi'ye ba?lamamas?, öteki taraf?n hatas? 'umumi ve mü?terek'e ba?lamas?d?r. Bir ?ey var olabilmek için hususi ve umumi vas?flara ayn? derecede muhtaç oldu?una göre, gerçe?i bunlardan yaln?z birine ba?lamak mümkün de?ildir.

Benim mücerret nazariyelerime kar?? muar?zlar?m?n müptezel te?bihler ve mü?ahhas delillerle müdafaa ettikleri tez, bu cahil efkar-? umumiyeyi aldatabilirdi.

Tuhaf" dedi, benim bu k?z? gözlerim ?s?r?yor. Ben dedim ki, e?er güzellerin vücutlar?nda göz ?s?r?klar? iz b?raksayd?, bütün yüzleri, boyunlar?, bacaklar?, ayaklar? çürük içinde kal?rd?.

?nsanlar?n hayat?nda s?k s?k olan bir ?eye inanmamak, inanmak de?il, inanmamak, izahtan aciz kald???m?z her hadiseyi hurafe sayan bir hurafedir.