Quotes About Truth

For history as far as I can see is not the arrangement of what happens, in sequence and in truth, but a fabulous arrangement of surmises and guesses held up as a banner against the assault of withering truth. History

This is a ferocious truth, because a child knows no better. A child is never the author of his own history. I suppose this is well known.

They say that we come from apes and maybe it is the residing animal in us that knows things deep down that we almost don't realise we know.

The world loves to be deceived.

The world wants to be deceived.

Notwendig man viel Narren findet, Denn viel sind an sich selbst erblindet, Die mit Gewalt wollen weise sein, Da jedermann mit klarem Schein Wohl ihre Narrheit sieht.

Nichts tat so weh wie die Wahrheit aus dem Mund eines geliebten Menschen.

His memories were like pieces of furniture in an empty house whose previous owner had shrouded them in dust sheets. Until yesterday he'd tried to tear the dust sheets off. Today he was afraid they might be concealing some terrible truth

How can I put it poetically? Time is the life jacket of truth; it always brings it to the surface

The truth is to be found in every single sentence on every single page, but you've skimmed over it

What sort of life is it if you can't distinguish between madness and reality?

Ono Å¡to ne znamo, to nas i ne brine. A ono Å¡to ne vidimo to i ne postoji?

Strogo uzevši, oko je samo produžena alatka našeg istinskog vizualnog osjetilnog organa - mozga, koji nikada ne dopušta da promatramo stvarnost, nego samo njezinu interpretaciju.

The state prosecutor forced a smile, but it didn't extend to his eyes. Ira knew that the difference between an honest smile and the vacant facial expression of an artificial grin lay in the gaze. Faust may have been smiling, but the eyes behind his glasses were ice cold. And that could only mean one thing - that everything he was about to say was a lie

Sebastian Haffner

La noticia «Houben corre los cien metros en 10,6» despertaba exactamente las mismas sensaciones que en su época el titular «Capturados veinte mil rusos», y «Peltzer gana el campeonato inglés y bate el récord mundial» equivalía incluso a acontecimientos que, ¡ay!, jamás habían tenido lugar durante la guerra, como «París conquistada» o «Inglaterra solicita la paz». Yo

It took me quite a while to realize that my youthful excitability was right and my father's wealth of experience was wrong; that there are things that cannot be dealt with by calm skepticism.

No Aristotelian ever thought that what strikes me as self-evident cannot fail to be true. If I am enough of an idiot, the most errant nonsense may strike me as self-evident.

Moral Psychology is a manifestation in the philosophical discipline of ethical nihilism.

Consciousness of a manifold of subjects lies deeper than any empirical content judged. It is inside the logical concept of judgment, inside the concept of being and truth. As you contradict me, you figure in my consciousness not as an object with determinations. You figure in my consciousness as judgment. Anything I think of you is subordinated to and informed by this conception.

Ginzo inclined his head and, without uttering a single word, returned to his room in the main house. For a while he just stood there thinking, but eventually he uttered a single sentence: "That man's lying." With that, he opened his suitcase and took out a blank telegram. After a few moments, he began to write. KATSUKO DEAD. SEND KINDAICHI. He addressed it to his own wife, then set out for the K—town post office.

Why is it that all men like to lie?

De peligro e mengua si quieres seer quito, guardate de tu lengua, e mas de tu escripto. Negar lo que se dize a veces a lugar, mas, si escrito yaze, non se puede negar.

This administration misled a nation into war by cherry-picking intelligence and stretching the truth beyond recognition.