Quotes About Truth

The tangible and intangible collide to cast a spell. But can a person or thing ever be stripped naked? Can we ever discover reality hiding under the meanings we give to people and things? I don't think so. And I don't think Fitzgerald thought so either. His book meditates on the necessity of fiction, not only as lies but as truths.

nonsense can also be real

Pero claro está que las mentiras más espectaculares en absoluto necesitan ser perfectas. No dependen tanto de la habilidad del embustero como de las expectativas y los deseos del oyente.

Each person does see the world in a different way. There is not a single, unifying, objective truth. We're all limited by our perspective.

I see what I did not see. I experience that which is outside my own experience. This is the magic of reading novels. This is the working out of the problem of illusion. I take a book off the shelf. I open it up and begin to read, and what I discover in its pages is real.

The truth is that the world and our fantasies often overlap.

What she remembered is undoubtedly something so radically different from the image I gave to her memory that the two may be incompatible.

En mayor o menor medida, todos inventamos nuestro pasado.

You really believe that there are subjects that shouldn't be photographed?' George said. He spoke evenly and softly. 'Maybe I do,' I said, thinking aloud. 'You believe in censorship then,' said Stephen. I looked up at Stephen. His face was tight, combative. 'Not censorship,' I said slowly. 'That's external. I mean control from the inside. After all, pictures can lie, too, can convey falseness rather than truth.

I'm sure that my dreams of maleness are least partly about escaping the cultural expectation that burden femininity, but I also think they are something more complex, that the dreams recognize a truth that there is a man in me as well as a woman and that this duality is in fact part of being human, but not one that is always easy to reconcile.

Because I knew so much about him, because I had been close to him, I couldn't bring the various fragments of my experience with him into a single coherent image. The truth was mobile and contradictory, and I was willing to live with that.

the ironic point of view is sometimes the only legitimate way to interpret the reality we live in.

American feminism has always had a puritanical strain, an imposed blindness to erotic truth.

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.

Live authentically. Live your truth. And if you love me for anything, love me because I live mine.

Whatever you know, or don't - only Love is real.

I'm not who you think i am. If you love me, you love me for the wrong reasons.

If you're honest with yourself, you're going to find out whether you truly love America, or whether your primary allegiance is to the Republican party.

The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.

Everyone loves the Dream but I kill it.

Without being and remaining oneself, there is no love.

I truly love my fans. Truly, truly from the heart. That's the real truth. I love them.

Upon discovering truth, the natural love one has for oneself expands until it encompasses the whole world. This Love removes the ego.

He who love touches walks not in darkness.