Quotes About Truth

Since the world drifts into delirium, we must adopt a delirious point of view. We must no longer assume any principle of truth, of causality, or any discursive norm. Instead, we must grant both the poetic singularity of events and the radical uncertainty of events.

Philosophy has never been anything but a disavowal of the reality principle.

The most difficult thing is to renounce the truth and the possibility of verification, to remain as long as possible on the enigmatic, ambivalent, and reversible side of thought.

To dissimulate is to pretend not to have what one has. To simulate is to feign to have what one doesn't have. One implies a presence, the other an absence.

most of life occurs in the hollows between expectation and reality.

To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.

I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known Nothing you can see that isn't shown

All fishermen are liars; it's an occupational disease with them like housemaid's knee or editor's ulcers.

Lying – remembering beauty in truth.

What is reality, anyway? Just a collective hunch.

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

For me they are no different, reality and dreams.

Reality doesn't have to be plausible. Reality can be as preposterous as it pleases.

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.

I don't believe there's any such thing as objective reality. It's only reality as we experience it.

It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it.

Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.

I'm not big into images. I'm into reality.

Non-fiction or documentaries can tell any kind of a story because they don't have to adhere to the rules of what's possible. When you're making something up, you have to say, 'Well, this is what would happen here,' but in reality, stuff happens that seems impossible.

There is a moment when nothing can be wiped out and left behind any more, when there is only reality and reality is horrifying.

Why do a reality show if you're going to be fake?

If I do a reality show, it'll have to be a real reality show. I can't do a scripted reality show.