Quotes About Truth

Christopher Hitchens

the idea that two and two make five, for instance, was suggested by multiple sources. Stalin's propagandists were fond of saying that they completed the first Five Year Plan in four years; this was sometimes rendered for the simple-minded as 2+2=5.

isn't that theologians deliberately tell untruths. It's as though they just don't care about truth; aren't interested in truth; don't know what truth even means; demote truth to negligible status compared with other considerations, such as symbolic or mythic significance.

A virgin can conceive. A dead body can walk again. Your leprosy can be cured. The blind can see. Nonsense. It's not moral to lie to children. It's not moral to lie to ignorant, uneducated people and tell them that if they only would believe nonsense, they can be saved. It's immoral.

Christopher Hitchens

croire en un dieu est une façon d'exprimer une disposition à croire en n'importe quoi. Tandis que rejeter la croyance n'est d'aucune manière professer que l'on ne croit en rien.

Tertullian put it, either disarmingly or annoyingly according to your taste. I believe it because it is absurd. It is impossible to quarrel seriously with such a view. If one must have faith in order to believe something, or believe in something, then the likelihood of that something having any truth or value is considerably diminished.

No. Even now I can't altogether believe that any of this really happened...

Oh, I know you. You're soft, like most men. You make up romances about people instead of seeing them as they are.

Öyle konular vard?r ki yaÅŸamda, sana soruluncaya kadar kendin bile bunlar? bildiÄŸini bilmezsin.

Christopher Isherwood

Write, live what happens; Life is too sacred for invention – though we may lie about it sometimes, to heighten it.

Spiritual warfare is not about naming territorial spirits, claiming the ground or binding demons. It is all about the gospel. It is to live a gospel life, to preserve gospel unity and to proclaim gospel truth. It is to do this in the face of a hostile world, a deceptive enemy and our own sinful natures. And it is to pray to a sovereign God for gospel opportunities. Advance comes through godliness, unity, proclamation and prayer. Timothy Chester, on Ephesians 621

Good and bad are just constructs people use.

A life without truth is illogical. Surak wrote that the truth is simply the actual state of the universe. To live at odds with the truth is to be in conflict with reality itself. Such an existence is unsustainable.

Faustus: «Come, I think hell's a fable». Mephistopheles: «Ay, think so still, until experience change thy mind».

I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no sin but ignorance.

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the the universe

By Aladdin's lamplit scrotum, man! Everything is a story. What is there but stories? Stories are the only truth.

You want me and I want you. right? Who did she think she was? You can't just go around blurting out the truth like a prophet with Tourette's Syndrome. He said, Well, I guess. Yeah, that's right.

Hope is bulletproof, truth just hard to hit

Everything is a story. What is there but stories? Stories are the only truth.

You can't just go around blurting out the truth like a prophet with Tourette's syndrome.

People are horrible and they lie.