Quotes About Truth

In essence, oversimplification tends to take a partial truth and make it all powerful.

in the latter half of the twentieth century, postmodernism upended everything. Universal truths were no longer accepted. "Truth" (postmodernism loves quotation marks) was instead a social construct that depended heavily on cultural context. Nothing was either true or false, but was instead open to interpretation.

By exclaiming that "there are no absolute truths" the postmodern stance is also claiming that the statement it just made is an absolute truth—trying to have it both ways, rejecting absolutism with absolutism.

Why lie, Robert? Why lie? You know that lying is the alcoholics kryptonite, you can't afford it, the reasonable voice in his head screamed.

Every person has the truth in his heart. No matter how complicated his circumstances, no matter how others look at him from the outside, and no matter how deep or shallow the truth dwells in his heart, once his heart is pieced with a crystal needle, the truth will gush forth like a geyser.

I nichilisti odiano i pessimisti: chiunque conosca la verità del dolore intralcia i loro piani per l'incremento dell'infelicità del mondo.

MANY men say that in our dreams There are but lies and idle themes; And yet a man can dream such dreams As are not lies, rather, it seems, Their meaning, later, becomes clear. We may invoke as witness here

Les vérités qu'on aime le moins à apprendre sont celles que l'on a le plus d'intérêt à savoir.

To tell the world what truly matters to you is to make yourself vulnerable.

Ništa ne može da prevari više nego fotografija: verujemo da smo ovekove?ili jedan sre?an trenutak, ali smo samo stvorili nostalgiju.

Quelquefois l'avenir habite en nous sans que nous le sachions, et nos paroles qui croient mentir dessinent une réalité prochaine.

La première qualité d'un écrivain était de savoir captiver son lecteur par une bonne histoire. Un récit capable de l'arracher à son existence pour le projeter au coeur de l'intimité et de la vérité des personnages.Le style n'était que le moyen d'innerver la narration et de la rendre vibrante.

ako pogazimo sopstvene vrednosti, pogazili smo sve.

En prétendant raconter la vie dans vos romans, vous mentez. La vie est trop complexe pour être mise équation ou pour se laisser enfermer dans les pages d'un livre. Elle est plus forte que les maths ou que la fiction. Le roman, c'est de la fiction. Et la fiction, c'est techniquement du mensonge.

No hay nada malo en lo que hago», alegó. Lo había. La palabra asusta al poder.

Dentro de nosotros habitaba un pequeño Goebbels que nos dictaba la forma más apropiada de reelaborar la verdad para mantener incólume tu aureola de prohombre. Éramos tus publirrelacionistas.

Ser o no ser. Ser, querido Shakespeare. Siempre ser.

Es triste que nuestro cerebro no sea capaz de almacenar los recuerdos de cada segundo de nuestra vida. En la memoria solo queda pedacería. Además, la percepción nos juega trucos. Superponemos hechos reales con imaginarios y lo que dábamos como sucedido no es más que una invención. El recuerdo de nuestro pasado queda a mitad de camino entre lo ficticio y lo verídico

Son ciertas las mentiras que ha dicho el que dice la verdad.

El infierno es una verdad conocida demasiado tarde»

An absence of fear, Elisa realizes, can be mistaken for happiness, but it isn't the same thing. Not even close.

Libraries don't keep secrets; they reveal them.

Your heart is uncomplicated. It knows what it knows and acts accordingly. Greater wisdom is hard to find.

Only books talked about all the things adults didn't want you to ask about--Life. Death. Good and Evil. And what else truly mattered in life.