Quotes About Truth

Science is but the statement of truth found out.

How long, she asked, was this fraudulent stage-show called science to go on producing its 'closer and closer' approximations to an 'absolute and disinterested' truth? How long was the 'déception rationale', the con trick of objectivism to be practiced?

the problem here is that in the 20th century we have lost the relationship between imagination and fact.

Quite hypnotising a somewhat popeyed circle, he declared that there was no such thing as fantasy. There was a scale of illusions, declared he, which could be more or less solid according to the way they were sold.

like the wing of the chaffinch, both the truth and authority have to undergo natural selection. The new meansof persuasion are to be as smoothly and stylistically designed as a 48-track digital tape studio, quiet as a Rolls, appealing as a glamorous face. From hot systems of social control, destructive of the environment, wasteful of sensitive and limited power systems, the progress is towards elegant and entertaining designer-systems of pressure and influence.

Through relationship we grow and learn. Through relationship we heal and are returned to wholeness and truth. We need others to mirror our misperceptions and our projections and to help us bring repressed material to consciousness for healing.

Honesty can be a dirty gift.

There was nothing fake or added about him. He was all himself.

Honesty can be a dirty gift. It can muddy a sparkling stream of memories.

I dreamed the world was an awful place," he said. "It wasn't a dream," she told him.

A GOOD LIE IN THE RIGHT PLACE CAN MAKE UP FOR ANY NUMBER OF WRONGS.

Prostia, dup? cum spune Pyrrhon, nu-i deloc mai prejos decât înÈ›elepciunea, de care nu se deosebeÈ™te prin nimic.

I have no wish to know anything which may deform life and mar its beauty. Never mind whether our gods are true or not; they are beautiful, their rule is pleasant for us, and we live without care.

Why does crime, even when as powerful as Cæsar, and assured of being beyond punishment, strive always for the appearances of truth, justice, and virtue? Why does it take the trouble?

It is wise to listen, not to me but to the Word, and to confess that all things are one.

It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.

Without injustices, the name of justice would mean what?

Even what those with the greatest reputation for knowing it all claim to understand and defend are but opinions.

To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.

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Things keep their secrets.

Latent structure is master of obvious structure

The track of writing is straight and crooked.