Quotes About Truth

Corresponding to the two basic philosophies of life, then, hedonism and biblical theism, are two views of love. Everyone, of course, is for love. The hippies are for love, the situation ethicists are for love, the followers of Hari Krishna are for love, Christians are for love. But it is true of love, as it is of heaven, that "everybody talks about it ain't got it.

The corollary to the notion that any rumor is at least half true, is that any half-truth, repeated often enough, becomes entirely true.

asked. "They lie." "Ah. Frauds.

But here's the thing -- you've got questions of your own. The questions won't go away just because you try to ignore them. You may never get answers, but you need to accept that the questions are real and that you have reasons for asking them.

Absolute certainty is the greatest of all illusions.

The opening sentence of his latest book could have served as his personal motto: Absolute certainty is the greatest of all illusions.

Remember rule number one - stick to the truth, but don't volunteer anything... What's rule number two? See rule number one.

Grandma always said that people don't change, at least not way down deep inside where it counts.

Nothing is true but what is never said.

it is dangerous to unmask images, since they dissimulate the fact that there is nothing behind them).

Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true.

I am a terrorist and nihilist in theory as the others are with their weapons. Theoretical violence, not truth, is the only resource left us.

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

All we have left of liberty is an ad-man's illusion.

The Matrix is surely the kind of film about the matrix that the matrix would have been able to produce.

The old slogan 'truth is stranger than fiction,' that still corresponded to the surrealist phase of this estheticization of life, is obsolete. There is no more fiction that life could possibly confront, even victoriously-it is reality itself that disappears utterly in the game of reality-radical disenchantment, the cool and cybernetic phase following the hot stage of fantasy.

It is useless to dream of revolution through content, useless to dream of a revelation through form, because the medium and the real are now in a single nebula whose truth is indecipherable.

To dissimulate is to pretend not to have what one has. To simulate is to feign to have what one doesn't have. One implies a presence, the other an absence. But it is more complicated than that because simulating is not pretending

Take your desires for reality! can be understood as the ultimate slogan of power.

When you take away verisimilitude, you do not automatically find the veridical but, perhaps, the implausible.

The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth—it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true.

Ciddi olmamak ve ciddi görünmek gerekiyor. Ya da ciddi gibi görünmeden ciddi olmak. Ciddi gibi görünmekle ciddi olmay? birleÅŸtirenler deÄŸersiz kiÅŸilerdir.

The feminine seduces because it is never where it thinks it is, or where it thinks itself.

Americans believe in facts, but not in facticity. They do not know that facts are factitious, as their name suggests.