Quotes About Truth

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.

Only a monster can allow himself the luxury of seeing things as they are.

We know, we feel that everything has been said, that there is nothing left to say. But we feel less that this truth affords language a strange, even unsettling status which redeems it. Words are ultimately saved because they have ceased living.

patíbulos, calabouços e masmorras só prosperam à sombra de uma fé - dessa necessidade de crer que infestou o espírito para sempre. O diabo empalidece comparado a quem dispõe de uma verdade, de sua verdade.

La scienza è l'elusione della saggezza in nome della conoscenza del mondo.

Quando non si hanno più illusioni su di sè, non se ne conservano sugli altri.

Life seems good only to the madman

Lucidity is the only vice which makes us free—free in a desert.

Lucidity is the only vice which make us free - free in a desert.

What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts.

The truth we do not always pursue; but when we do so passionately, violently, we hate whatever is expression, whatever derives from words and forms, all the noble lies, even further from the truth than the vulgar ones.

When you know quite absolutely that everything is unreal, you then cannot see why you should take the trouble to prove it.

The worst reproach to be made against police states is that they oblige—for prudence's sake—the destruction of letters and diaries, i.e., what is least false in literature.

I feel I am free but I know I am not.

We last only as long as our fictions.

reality" falls within the province of lunacy.

We can endure any truth, however destructive

The great systems are actually no more than brilliant tautologies. What advantage is it to know that the nature of being consists in the 'will to live,' in 'idea,' or in the whim of God or of Chemistry? A mere proliferation of words, subtle displacements of meanings. What is loathes the verbal embrace, and our innermost experience reveals us nothing beyond the privileged and inexpressible moment. Moreover, Being itself is only a pretension of Nothingness.

Bütün hakikatler bize kar??d?r. Ama yaÅŸamaya devam ederiz çünkü onlar? olduklar? gibi kabulleniriz, çünkü onlardan sonuç ç?karmay? reddederiz.

There exists an undeniable pleasure in knowing that everything you do has no real basis, that whether or not you commit an action is a matter of indifference. The fact nonetheless remains that in our daily gestures we compromise with Vacuity - that is, we turn and turn about, and occasionally, at the same time, we take the world as real and unreal. We mingle pure truth and sordid truths and this amalgam, the thinker's disgrace, is the living man's revenge.

It is disturbing to think that we carry our secret – our illusion – into the grave, that we have not survived the mysterious mistake that vivified our every breath, that, except for the sceptics and whores among us, all founder in falsehood because they fail to divine the equivalence, in nullity, of triumphs and truths.

Quand on sait de façon absolue que tout est irréel, on ne voit vraiment pas pourquoi on se fatiguerait à le prouver.

We can act only against the truth. Man starts over again every day, in spite of everything he knows, against everything he knows.

I may change my opinion on the same subject, the same event, ten, twenty, thirty times in the course of a single day. And to think that each time, like the worst impostor, I dare utter the word "truth"!