Quotes About Truth

The conspiracy theory of society . . . comes from abandoning God and then asking: "Who is in his place?" —Karl Popper, Conjectures and Refutations, London, Routledge

Counterfactual conditionals are always true, because the premise is false. But I was there that day, so now I am where I am.

The Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt.

You cannot escape one infinite, I told myself, by fleeing to another; you cannot escape the revelation of the identical by taking refuge in the illusion of the multiple.

The point is that newspapers are not there for spreading news but for covering it up. X happens, you have to report it, but it causes embarrassment for too many people, so in the same edition you add some shock headlines - mother kills four children, savings at risk of going up in smoke, letter from Garibaldi insulting his lieutenant Nino Bixio discovered, etc. - so news drowns in a great sea of information.

Jangan percaya begitu saja pada apa yang disebut sebagai sejarah

Because if the Masters of the World exist, they can only be underground: this is a truth that all sense but few dare utter. Perhaps

Signora, there's nothing in this world that demands more caution than the truth. To tell the truth is like leeching one's own heart….

Oysa ÅŸimdi, dünyan?n zarars?z bir bilmece olduÄŸunu, ard?nda bir gerçek varm?? gibi onu aç?klamaya kalk??ma ç?lg?nl???m?z?n onu korkunçlaÅŸt?rd???na inan?yorum.

Kada policijos informatorius tampa išties patikimas? Kai atskleidžia s?moksl?. Tad reikia surengti s?moksl?, apie kur? gal?t? pranešti.

It is the logic of research and discovery that is tortuous, because it is the logic of science. Whereas the logic of knowledge needs no discovery, because it knows already.

But then how can we trust ancient wisdom, whose traces you are always seeking, if it is handed down by lying books that have interpreted it with such license? Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means, a precept that the commentators of the holy books had very clearly in mind.

Heden ten dage verstaat men onder vrijheid echter de mogelijkheid om de geloofsovertuiging en de mening te kiezen die je het meest aanstaat en die allemaal inwisselbaar zijn - en het maakt de staat niet uit of je vrijmetselaar, christen, Jood of een volgeling van de Grote Turk bent. Zo wordt men onverschillig jegens de Waarheid.

I know nothing. There is nothing that I know. But the heart senses certain things. Let your heart speak, question faces, do not listen to tongues.

If God existed, he would be a library.

Creo que, a ciertas alturas, ya no hay diferencia entre acostumbrarse a fingir que se cree y acostumbrarse a creer

the more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn't matter if things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a secret.

there's nothing in this world that demands more caution than the truth. To tell the truth is like leeching one's own heart...

A paradoxical consequence: hidden behind every false conspiracy there's perhaps a conspiracy by someone who stands to gain from presenting it as true.

a paradox would appear to be a maximum that looks false at first sight and, only after mature reflection, seems to express what the author believes to be true and, because of the hiatus between the expectations of popular opinion and its provocative form, also appears to be witty

A paradox is a genuine reversal of the commonly accepted point of view, one that presents an unacceptable world, thereby eliciting resistance and rejection, and yet, if we make an effort to understand it, it is one that leads to knowledge; eventually it seems to be witty because it has to be admitted that it is true.

Madmen and children always speak the truth.

the more openly it remains a figure of speech, the more it is a dissimilar similitude and not literal, the more a metaphor reveals its truth.

Nav nek?, ko es zin?tu. Ir lietas, ko saj?t sirds...