Quotes About Truth

This is what fools people: a man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his own life as if he were telling a story. But you have to choose: live or tell.

The idea is still there, unnameable. It waits, peacefully. Now it seems to say: "Yes? Is that what you wanted? Well, that's exactly what you've never had (remember you fooled yourself with words, you called the glitter of travel, the love of women, quarrels, and trinkets adventure) and this is what you'll never have—and no one other than yourself." But Why? WHY?

I would like to see the truth clearly before it is too late.

Every belief is a belief that falls short; one never wholly believes what one believes.

The truth is that I can't put down my pen: I think I'm going to have the Nausea and I feel as though I'm delaying it while writing. So I write whatever comes into my mind.

General ideas are more flattering. And then professionals and even amateurs always end up by being right

Many people are walking along the shore, turning poetic springtime faces towards the sea; they're having a holiday because of the sun. [...] The true sea is cold and black, full of animals; it crawls under this thin green film made to deceive human beings.

Things are entirely what they appear to be and BEHIND THEM... there is nothing.

Le secret douloureux des Dieux et des rois: c'est que les hommes sont libres. Ils sont libres Egisthe. Tu le sais, et ils ne le savent pas.

And naturally, everything they tell about in books can happen in real life, but not in the same way. It is to this way of happening that I clung so tightly.

From these few observations we can already conclude that the real is never beautiful. Beauty is a value applicable only to the imaginary and which means the negation of the world in its essential structure.

Before beginning this treatise, he wanted the advice of The Baboon, his philosophy prof. "Excuse me, sir," he said at the end of a class, "could anyone claim that we don't exist?" The Baboon said no. "Goghito," he said, "ergo zum. You exist because you doubt your existence.

Ötekilere yalan söylemesinden hoÅŸlan?yordum. Ama bana ayn? biçimde davranmamas?n? isterdim. Bütün bu ölülerin üstünden, çar??lardaki yankesiciler gibi anlaÅŸabileceÄŸimizi ve onun en sonunda bana gerçeÄŸi söyleyeceÄŸini ummuÅŸtum. Oysa hiçbir ÅŸey söylemedi bana, evet, hiçbir ÅŸey!

incident. "Nothing new." I admire the way we can lie, putting reason on our side. Evidently, nothing new has happened, if you care to put it that way:

a man is more of a man because of what he does not say than what he does say.

You might think that there's some authority you could look to for answers, but all of the authorities you can think of are fake.

El mundo de las explicaciones y razones no es el de la existencia.

It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.

There is a theme that runs through my work, and that is: the toxic property of keeping secrets.

My work was entirely nonfiction.

The darkness is really out there. It's not something that's in my head, just. It's in my work because it's in the world.

Fiction is not a dream. Nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be accurate or the work of imagining will not stand up.

I hope there's some kind of morality in all my work.

It's a good idea to pay attention to the world and try to understand how it works rather than how you would like it to work.