Quotes About Truth

The truth always arrive too late because it walks slower than lies. Truth crawls at a snail's pace.

We were in Africa. I know, I know. What were we doing there? We must have lived, somehow. Eaten, slept, raised children? Was it so savage and horrible that it is netter forgotten? Who can tell me? No one. Because nobody knows and everyone takes for granted what they've been told.

Waar eindigde zijn geloof en waar begonnen de komedie en de berekening?

Every single one of us goes through life depending on and bound by our individual knowledge and awareness. And we call it reality. However, both knowledge and awareness are equivocal. One's reality might be another's illusion. We all live inside our own fantasies, don't you think?

Every human being relies on and is bounded by his knowledge and experience to live. This is what we call "reality". However, knowledge and experience are ambiguous, thus reality can become illusion. Is it not possible to think that, all human beings are living in their assumptions?

Looks can be decieving

We don't know what kind of people we truly are until the moment before our deaths. As death comes to embrace you, you will realize what you are. That's what death is, don't you think?

Everyone lives bound by their own knowledge and awareness. They define that as reality; but knowledge and awareness are vage, and perhaps better called illusions.

Peace under an illusion is not true peace. It's only meaningful if the real world manages to accomplish it.

Wake up to reality! Nothing ever goes as planned in this accursed world. The longer you live, the more you realize that the only things that truly exist in this reality are merely pain, suffering and futility. -Madara Uchiha

la beauté est une malédiction pour ce monde elle nous empêche de reconnaître qui sont les vrais monstres

Tous prétendent vrai leur vision de vie mais toute vision peut s'avérer n'être qu'une illusion

la beauté est une malédiction pour ce monde elle nous empêche de reconnaître qui sont les vrais monstres Shikamaru Nara

Like Solzhenitsyn, I believe that in the end, words will break cement. Solzhenitsyn wrote, So the word is more sincere than concrete? So the word is not a trifle? Then may noble people begin to grow, and their word will break cement. [Nadya Tolokonnikova's closing statement]

Lying is the message. Its not just that both Putin and Trump lie, it is that they lie in the same way for the same purpose: blatantly, to assert power of the truth itself. The Putin Paradigm, New York Review of Books

A journalist who assumes that Trump's intention is unknowable, that repeated false statements—when the truth is indeed knowable—do not, factually, constitute lying, is abdicating the responsibility to tell the story, to provide the context of what happened a year ago, yesterday, or even in parallel with the lying. The journalist becomes complicit in creating the bizarre sense of ahistoricism of the Trump era, which seems to exist only, ever, in the current moment.

Our souls are permanently empty. We have grown to presume everyone guilty at all times, thus creating hundreds of thousands of guards watching over our morality, conscience, purity of world view, compliance with the wishes of the authorities. We have turned truth into a crime. We have robbed nature to within a

Science gradually yielded to propaganda, and as a result propaganda tended more and more to represent itself as science.

On November 16, 2009, Sergei Magnitsky died in prison at the age of thirty-seven.

There were no facts in her universe, and no issue of trust. There was power. Power demanded respect. Power conferred the right to speak and not be challenged. Being right was a question of power, not evidence.

The existence of alternative facts had become policy.

Rigidity is always the opposite of the search for truth.

There is only one right answer to any given question at any given time, and how can I tell when the time has come to know the difference?

The truth was too primitive and too bloody.