Quotes About Truth

io devo sapere. Devo Dovete? Chi ve lo impone, ormai? Nessuno ci impone di sapere, Adso. Si deve, ecco tutto, anche a costo di capire male

I concluded that although instruments, whether empirical or conjectural, exist to prove that some object is false, every decision in the matter presupposes the existence of an original, authentic and true, to which the fake is compared. The truly genuine problem thus does not consist of proving something false but in proving that the authentic object is authentic.

Duchamp stuck a moustache on the Mona Lisa, but he needed a Mona Lisa to stick the moustache on; and in order to deny that he was painting a pipe, Magritte had to paint a meticulously realistic pipe.

False tales are, first of all, tales, and tales, like myths, are always persuasive.

With irony we say the opposite of truth.

Counterfactual conditionals are always true, because the premise is false.

through witty riddles and unsuspected metaphors, though ti tells us things differently to the way they are, as if it were lying, it actually obliges us to examine them more closely, and it makes us say: Ah, this is just as things are, and I dint know it.

Maar het is me vaak gebeurd dat ik de verleidelijkste voorstellingen van de zonde juist aantrof in de geschriften van die mannen van onkreukbare deugdzaamheid, die de bekoring en de invloeden ervan veroordeelden. Teken dat zij worden gedreven door een zodanige ijver om van de waarheid te getuigen dat zij, uit liefde voor God, niet aarzelen aan het kwaad alle verlokkingen toe te schrijven waarin het zich hult, om de mensen beter in kennis te stellen van de manieren waarop de Boze hen bekoort.

es verdad, la cultura medieval tiene el sentido de la innovación, pero se las ingenia para esconderlo bajo el disfraz de la repetición (al contrario de la cultura moderna, que finge innovar incluso cuando repite).

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they believe in nothing. They believe in everything.

Antychryst mo?e zrodzi? siÄ™ z pobo?noÅ›ci, z nadmiernej miÅ'oÅ›ci do Boga lub prawdy, jak kacerz rodzi siÄ™ ze Å›wiÄ™tego, a opÄ™tany przez demona z jasnowidzÄ…cego. LÄ™kaj siÄ™, Adso, proroków i tych, którzy gotowi sÄ… umrze? za prawdÄ™, gdy? zwykle pociÄ…gajÄ… za sobÄ… Å›mier? licznych, czÄ™sto przed sobÄ…, czasem zamiast siebie.

Peygamberlerden kork Adso; gerçek uÄŸruna ölmeye haz?r olanlardan da; çünkü onlar genellikle birçok insan? da kendileriyle birlikte ölmeye sürüklerler, bazen kendilerinden önce, bazen de kendilerinin yerine.

But sometimes you have to speak because you feel the moral obligation to say something, not because you have the 'scientific' certainty that you are saying it in an unassailable way.

Huye, Adso, de los profetas y de los que están dispuestos a morir por la verdad, porque suelen provocar también la muerte de muchos otros, a menudo antes que la propia, y a veces en lugar de la propia.

Quizá la tarea del que ama a los hombres consista en lograr que éstos se rían de la verdad, lograr que la verdad ría, porque la única verdad consiste en aprender a liberarnos de la insana pasión por la verdad.

La ilegitimidad es algo de lo que tenemos que hablar en términos de no tenerla»

There are secrets that kill. But

Estoy persuadido de que el mundo es un enigma benigno, que nuestra locura vuelve terrible porque pretende interpretarlo con arreglo a su propia verdad.

So the librarian protects them not only against mankind but also against nature, and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion, the enemy of truth.

There comes a time when one has to make up one's mind and choose which side one is on. The catoptric universe is a reality which can give the impression of virtuality, whereas the semiotic universe is a virtuality which can give the impression of reality.

Let us forget for a moment that some of these false tales produced positive effects, while others produced horror and shame. All created something, for better or worse. Nothing in their success is inexplicable. What represents a problem is rather the way they managed to replace other tales that today we consider true.

Si Dieu existait, il serait une bibliothèque.

Will you tell me, William, you who know so much about heretics that you seem one of them, where the truth lies? Nowhere, at times, William said, sadly. You see? You yourself can no longer distinguish between one heretic and another. I at least have a rule. I know that heretics are those who endanger the order that sustains the people of God. And I defend the empire because it guarantees this order for me.

Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.