Quotes About Truth

People like to separate storytelling which is not fact from history which is fact. They do this so that they know what to believe and what not to believe.

I'm not afraid of what I am. I'm afraid I will see what I am not.

A tough life needs a tough language – and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers – a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place.

He doesn't take a photo or a video because he wants to remember — by which he means he wants to misremember because the moment is made up of what the camera can't capture.

Everyone remembers things which never happened. And it is common knowledge that people often forget things which did. Either we are all fantasists and liars or the past has nothing definite in it.

So just you take care, what you think is the heart might well be another organ.

What you think is the heart might well be another organ.

Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.

The earth is round and flat at the same time. This is obvious. That it is round appears indisputable; that it is flat is our common experience, also indisputable. The globe does not supersede the map; the map does not distort the globe.

There is a further trouble; no matter how meticulous the scientist, he or she cannot be separated from the experiment itself. Impossible to detach the observer from the observed. A great deal of scientific truth has later turned out to be its observer's fiction. It is irrational to assume that this is no longer the case.

But if what can exist does exist, is memory invention or is invention memory?

Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there is only measurement relative.

The true nature of the world is energy not mass.

What you fuck is much more important than how you write.

I believe it is each man's task to awaken his own soul. His soul is that part of him not subject to death and decay; that part of him made alive to truth and beauty. If he has no soul he is a brute. And where does this soul go, at death? said Byron. That is unknown, answered Shelley; the becoming of the soul, not its going, should be our concern. The mystery of life is on earth, not elsewhere.

I began to feel like Sarpi, that Venetian priest and diplomat, who said he never told a lie but didn't tell the truth to everyone.

we have to know what we are doing, pretending an order that doesn't exist, to make a security that cannot exist.

Die Wahrheit aber ist, dieses Wäre ist immer nur eine Erfindung. Ich kann nur die Entscheidungen treffen, die ich treffe, warum sich also quälen mit dem, was gewesen wäre, wenn ich doch nur bewältigen kann, was war? Die Wäre-Inseln sind für den Menschen unbewohnbar.

I'm telling you stories. Trust me. I

Por qué lo menos original que podemos decirnos uno a otro sigue siendo lo que más anhelamos oír?

I think I may have missed the world, that the one I've seen is a decoy to get me off the scent.

Just because you can't tell what it is, doesn't mean it's not what it is.

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. Some people say there are true things to be found, some people say all kinds of things can be proved. I don't believe them. The only thing for certain is how complicated it all is, like string full of knots. It's all there but hard to find the beginning and impossible to fathom the end. The best you can do is admire the cat's cradle, and maybe knot it up a bit more.

What makes up a life; events or the recollection of events? How much of recollection is invention? Whose invention?