Quotes About Truth

Language is a piss poor attempt at telepathy is what it is. We try to put our thoughts into each other's heads through language...But half the intended meaning gets lost in the transmission, and the other half is filtered through existing assumptions. Everything is a half truth! That's the whole problem! You can't understand me through the smog of your presumptions and prejudices. Multiply that six billion times and you'll begin to understand the desperation of our global situation

Anyway, the trick is simply this: No matter what happens, keep your heart open. Wide open. The heart is made of love, and love is indestructible, and only the arrogance of ego would presume that it requires protection. To open your heart is to reduce your ego, and this is the only magic that is ever required to experience the naked truth.

The fall of humanity was the fall from the actual to the symbolic. Language abstracts us from the real world; keeping us from direct, intuitive perception. Words, like the ego, are merely guides. Don't mistake them for the real thing. Pull aside the filthy curtains of the social. Language makes an enigma of simple existence; it obscures the true nature of reality and of your self.

I get it," Merlin leaned forward. "The magician simply redirects attention to one of these other fifty-five thousand realities, thereby distracting others from the reality they're manipulating

Quizá la verdadera locura no sea otra cosa que la sabiduría misma que, cansada de descubrir las vergüenzas del mundo ha tomado la inteligente resolución de volverse loca

De los hechos pasados y presentes no sé cuáles son verdad y cuáles mentira. Mi cabeza es como un cuarto desordenado en que todo ha cambiado de sitio. Busco algo y no lo encuentro.

Cada vez que intentaba pensar en ello, su pensamiento quedaba obturado. No podía seguir adelante. Y ello la obligaba a mentir cuando la preguntaban cosas que no entendía. Y más tarde, a creer, o a creer que creía, que sus mentiras eran verdad. Y a pedir que cesaran todas las investigaciones, porque prefería "no saber" a saber lo que temía.

Los espejos, como muchas personas, tienen respuestas distintas para las mismas preguntas, según los casos. [...] Ella era la misma, pero el espejo no. Y era éste quien le hablaba, como si dijera: " Estás muy mejorada desde la última vez que te vi.

Kan dere sitte her og late som om verden er den samme? Når bladene har hengt seg opp på trærne igjen, når regnet har trukket seg tilbake i skyene, når sola har splintret tåka, når det har gått et menneske gjennom skolegården og lagt gullstøv i grusen, kan dere bare sitte her og si at alt er som før?

Justice is like an invisible creature that flees before us. As long as we keep chasing it, we have it. It's the constant seeking for law and justice that constitutes law and justice. . . . All confusion and disorder and disintegration is just semblance and illusion. Law and order endure in secret. Truth and justice are not a conjuring trick.

Nej, bevis hade han inga. Men han hade sin övertygelse. Mot en övertygelse står sig de flesta bevis slätt.

I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul. Dive deep into your soul and explore it. I don't want to renounce my dark side. The truth has always held an enormous interest for me.

Healing for me is being able to sit next to the butcher and say 'Yes, I'm sitting next to the butcher now,' instead of saying 'there is no butcher'.

The truth lies in between the 1st and the 40th drink

And maybe she had certain beliefs that if you love somebody, [you're] gonna like them too. And that isn't necessarily true.

The incompleteness theorem is a mathematical theorem precisely because the relevant notions of truth and provability are mathematically definable. Nonmathematical "Gödel sentences" and Liar sentences give rise to prolonged (or endless) discussions of just what is meant by a proof, by a true statement, by sound reasoning, by showing something to be true, by convincing oneself of something, by believing something, by a meaningful statement, and so on.

A legtöbb feln?tt azt mondja, hogy boldog gyerekkora volt, és talán még el is hiszik, de nekem aztán mondhatják. Szerintem csak sikerült elfelejteniük.

That's not true, not grammar, and it doesn't even rhyme properly,' said Snufkin, and the subject was dropped.

if words lie face down there's a chance they might change during the night; you may suddenly come to see them with a new eye, perhaps with a rapid flash of insight. It is conceivable.

Mari," said Jonna, "sometimes you're really a little too obvious." "Do you think? But once in a while a person just needs to say what doesn't need to be said. Don't you think?

Sannheten må slås inn med harde spiker, men ikke noe menneske kan slå spiker i en madrass!

What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.

I tried to tell people about it, but I was drunk: they thought I was talking in riddles or metaphors.

So many people pretended interest in one thing while truly seeking to benefit their own desires. She was thankful she'd learned early on about the games people played and the falsehoods of fools.