Quotes About Truth

Moral concepts do not move about within a hard world set up by science and logic. They set up, for different purposes, a different world.

When one is very close to Truth itself, truthfulness vanishes.

The false god punishes, the true god slays.)

Words may mislead us (...) since words are often stable while concepts alter (...)

All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.

There's a kind of reality, a kind of truth.

you want to understand everything sympathetically. It can't be done. One must just blunder on. Truth lies in blundering on.

Do you think it's ever safe to say one's happy?

There may be no God, but there's decency and - and there's truth and trying to stay there, I mean to stay in it, in its sort of light, and trying to do a good thing and to hold onto what you know to be a good thing even if it seems stupid when you come to do it.

Ignorance I know – 'innocence' I imagine is just a word.

When I am told that a person is happy,' said Nick, 'I know that he is not. Of really happy people this is never said.

There are false suns, easier to gaze upon and far more comforting than the true one.

Tenderness and absolute trust and communication and truth matter more and more as one grows older. Somehow let us not waste love, it is rare. Can we not love each other at last in freedom, without awful possessiveness and violence and fear? Love matters, not 'in love'. Let there be no more partings now. Let there be peace between us now forever, we are no longer young. Love me, love me enough.

One should never tell anything to somebody who won't think about it right. Or is this too timid a doctrine?

Yes, and I'm ready to wade through blood for him, but there is no blood, only a false sickly slime — I can't live in fogs and falsehoods, I must live in the open, I must find my way out, I must find someone else, and I have found someone else.

The painter and the writer are not just copyists or even illusionists, but through some deeper vision of their subject-matter may become privileged truth tellers.

The apparent scene is slowly falling to pieces revealing the reality behind.

Everyone says how wonderful it is to be young. I've never seen it.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

we have futures. That means we can make things true…

We are not isolated free choosers, monarchs of all we survey, but benighted creatures sunk in a reality whose nature we are constantly and overwhelmingly tempted to deform by fantasy.

Blaise has always lived in a dream world. We all live in dream worlds, said Monty.

Actually, said Gildas, every marriage is an irreversible mistake. That's the secret which they all keep.

rabbit hole of relativism.