Quotes About Truth

Oysa tüm düÅŸleri elinden al?nm?? bir dünyaya gerçeklik egemen olabilir mi? Gerçeklikten ibaret bir dünya oluÅŸturmaya çal??t???m?z ölçüde elimiz aya??m?za dolaÅŸmakta ve bu gerçeklikten giderek uzaklaÅŸmaktay?z. GerçekleÅŸtiÄŸi an ortadan kaybolmaya baÅŸlayan bir gerçeklik evreni içinde ya??yoruz.

Ogni "trasparenza" pone immediatamente il problema del suo contrario, il segreto.

Ma è così sicuro che la corruzione debba essere sradicata?

It is not the world as it should be which puts an end to the real world, but the world as it is.

SavaÅŸ ahlâk?yla yüce savaÅŸ "deÄŸerlerinden" söz edenler fazla üzülmesinler: Çünkü savaÅŸ bir simülakra benzediÄŸi zaman bile insana yeterince ac? çektirebilmekte ve sonuç olarak bu sava??n gazileri de diÄŸerleriyle ayn? düzeyde bir deÄŸere sahip olabilmektedirler.

The Transphilosophical Divide: the point where truth begins to exist on both sides of the line, the point where all contradictory hypotheses can be simultaneously verified.

Current events are an incurable illness.

The simulacrum is never what hides the truth - it is truth that hides the fact that there is none. The simulacrum is true. -Ecclesiastes

It is like truth according to Nietzsche: we no longer believe that the truth is true when all its veils have been removed. Similarly, we do not believe that war is war when all uncertainty is supposedly removed and it appears as a naked operation. The nudity of war is no less virtual than that of the erotic body in the apparatus of striptease.

Stalin's double. Since he wasn't a perfect likeness, they touched him up using plastic surgery, after which they eliminated all his relatives and all the witnesses to the operation. He played his role so well that in the end he came to think he was Stalin (as did Stalin himself!). At that point they sent him to the Gulag. But so well did he identify with his role that, on learning of Stalin's death, he died three days later.

It is the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal.

One implies a presence, the other an absence. But it is more complicated than that because simulating is not pretending: Whoever fakes an illness can simply stay in bed and make everyone believe he is ill. Whoever simulates an illness produces in himself some of the symptoms (Littré).

simulation threatens the difference between the true and the false, the real and the imaginary.

One who lets others believe is always superior to one who believes, or makes others believe.

Concordance between a 'real' situation and a discourse ought to be an indication of 'truth', but it is, for that very reason, philosophically unbearable.

No se debe confundir la verdad con la opinión de la mayoría.

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

A half empty bottle of wine is also half full, but half a lie will never be half true

El poeta es un mentiroso que siempre dice la verdad.

Il y a une parte de vérité qui sort de nous que ce n'est pas le rêve, ce n'est pas la rêverie. .... C'est notre vrai moi, il est caché dans les ténèbres, il nous donne désordre....nous voulons travailler sans lui et est alors que nous commettons nos plus graves erreurs.

A half empty bottle of wine is also half full, but a half lie will never be half true

Un vaso medio vacío de vino, es también uno medio lleno; pero una mentira a medias, de ningún modo es una media verdad.