Quotes About Truth

From Obama's perspective, truth was what he said it was. The reason he despised Fox News, the nation's highest-rated cable news channel, was that Fox alone among the news networks evaluated the validity of the White House narrative. In fact, on more than a few occasions, Benghazi included, Fox's reporting showed the administration's account of events to be pure hogwash. That rankled, and a wounded Obama struck back.

a quote by David Schippers, a Democrat and the chief investigative counsel for the House Judiciary Committee. Said Schippers for the ages: "The president, then, has lied under oath in a civil deposition, lied under oath in a criminal grand jury. He lied to the people. He lied to his Cabinet. He lied to his top aides. And now he's lied under oath to the Congress of the United States. There's no one left to lie to.

Obama has subjected America to what Marc Thiessen described in the Washington Post as "a fundamentally dishonest presidency.

The heart lies to itself because it must.

Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.

The page is long, blank, and full of truth. When I am through with it, it shall probably be long, full, and empty with words.

Nothing ever happened - Not even this

Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain't this and that at all?

all day long wearing a hat that wasn't on my head

An awful realization that I have been fooling myself all my life thinking there was a next thing to do to keep the show going and actually I'm just a sick clown and so is everybody else...

It's hard to explain and best thing to do is not be false.

The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie.

Some's bastards, some's ain't. That's the score.

Dean took out other pictures. I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered, stabilized-within-the-photo lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives, or actual night, the hell of it, the senseless nightmare road. All of it inside endless and beginningless emptiness.

What a horror it would have been if the world was real, because if the world was real, it would be immortal.

A poet is a blind optimist. The world is against him for many reasons. But the poet persists. He believes that he is on the right track, no matter what any of his fellow men say. In his eternal search for truth, the poet is alone. He tries to be timeless in a society built on time.

In a sense, I'm mad (and withdrawn from life) while they're sane, human, normal - but in another sense, I speak from the depths of a vision of truth when I say that this continual jockeying for position is the enemy of life in itself. It may be life, 'life is like that,' it may be human and true, but it's also the death-part of life, and our purpose after all is to live and be true. We'll see.

I realised either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.

If you dont [sic] say what you want, what's the sense of writing?

What a horror it would have been if the world was real.

A man cannot impart the true feeling of things to others unless he himself has experienced what he is trying to tell of.

I wonder why our life must quiver between beauty and guilt, consummation and sadness, desire and regret, immortality and tattered moments unknowable, truth and beautiful meaningful lies.

history becomes fiction in the…act of being written down

Buddham Saranam Gocchami, I take refuge in the Buddha, Sangham, I take refuge in the church, Dhammam, I take refuge in the Dharma, the truth.