Quotes About Truth

At the end of the day, life trumps art... always.

Say it clearly and you make it beautiful no matter what.

If only they had told us that it was all metaphor, I might have learned;

I would say, 'I'm alone, but I'm not lonely.' But I was just kidding myself.

The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal , they are not untrue ...

Even Aristotle, master of pure reason, said: 'The friend of wisdom is also a friend of myth.

History is not the glory of the winners, it is the weapon of the losers

Man macht sich gar nicht klar genug, dass die gesamte Politik der Gegenwart auf das Problem der Klimaleugnung fokussiert ist.

Was he happy? One would ask that question in vain. A question like this makes sense only when applied to creatures who are rich in alternative possibilities, so that the actual truth can be contrasted with partly real probabilities and reflect itself in them.

A valóság lényege az értelem. Aminek nincs értelme, az számunkra nem valóságos. A valóság minden darabja azáltal létezik, hogy részese valamiféle egyetemes értelemnek. A régi kozmogóniák ezt azzal a szentenciával fejezték ki, hogy "Kezdetben vala az Ige". Aminek nincs neve, az számunkra nem létezik. Valamit megnevezni annyit tesz, mint egyféle egyetemes értelem részévé tenni.

For Schaeffer rationality concerned the validity of thought, while rationalism concerned someone beginning with himself and his reason plus what he observes, without information from any other source, and coming to final answers in regard to truth, ethics, and reality.

Far from regarding mankind as autonomous, Schaeffer believed that his books stressed "that people have no final answers in regard to truth, morals or epistemology without God's revelation in the Bible.

Bryan A. Follis

We want to share the truth with sensitivity and love and in the context of a meaningful relationship, but with the fundamental purpose of leading someone into a relationship with Jesus Christ.

Schaeffer declared that a central reason Christians do not understand their children is because their children no longer think in the same framework in which their parents think. It is not merely that they come out with different answers. The methodology has changed—that is, the very method by which they arrive at, or try to arrive at, truth has changed.

He believed that the non-Christian enjoys a false optimism by living partly on the basis of Christian presuppositions. Schaeffer aimed to destroy that by pushing the person toward the despair and darkness to which his or her non-Christian presuppositions logically led.

Thus for Michael Foucault, a leading postmodernist writer, "truth" is the result of power-relationships that masquerade as neutral means of enforcing order.

Furthermore, by arguing not only that all knowing and all speaking is done from a particular perspective, but that each perspective is equally true and valuable, postmodernism promotes not merely an alternative truth but a plurality of truths.

Kuyper called upon Christians to wage a struggle against all compromises with truth in every area of life and learning.

It is important to remember that, as Ken Auletta wrote in his definitive Greed and Glory on Wall Street, "no reporter can with 100 percent accuracy re-create events that occurred some time before. Memories play tricks on participants, the more so when the outcome has become clear. A reporter tries to guard against inaccuracies by checking with a variety of sources, but it is useful for a reader—and an author—to be humbled by this journalistic limitation.

Good intentions are ubiquitous in politics; what is scarce is accurate beliefs.

Without an ultimate authority for truth, all human striving has no ultimate value, and life itself becomes futile. Modern trends in preaching that deny the authority of the Word 8 in the name of intellectual sophistication lead to a despairing subjectivism in which people do what is right in their own eyes— a state whose futility Scripture has clearly articulated (Judg. 21: 25).

Long ago Augustine simply summarized, "When the Bible speaks, God speaks.

The efficacy of the truths in God's message rather than any virtue in the messenger transforms hearts.