Quotes About Truth

Until you caught a serial killer, it was impossible to know for sure that he existed.

It is wise to take admissions of uncertainty seriously," Daniel Kahneman noted, "but declarations of high confidence mainly tell you that an individual has constructed a coherent story in his mind, not necessarily that the story is true.

The ultimate goal of science is uncertainty's total eradication.

The distinc­tives of the Christian faith cannot be bartered for the blandishments of a fashionable bonhomie.

The testimony of a clear conscience before God is the priceless and unassailable bulwark of the soul.

Christian doctrine which is presented to the mind and will, and is received by faith, is proved by experience.

This is what fascinates me most: the peculiar necessity of imagining what is, in fact, real.

We are not to worship the Bible; we are to worship the One the Bible reveals.

Se o viciado é o último a saber que é um viciado, então talvez o homem seja o último a saber que está de fato dizendo o que ele próprio diz. - O homem duplo

maybe I have got to the point when I see something in everything, because I want to see something. The next thing, he thought, is voices. I'll start hearing voices. What can I count on? What can I believe?

You invent it, he thought to himself. And then you maintain it until it's true.

Everybody knows that Aristotelian two-value logic is fucked.

Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally. Waking up.

Everything is true,' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.' 'Will you be all right?' 'I'll be all right,' he said, and thought, And I'm going to die. Both those are true, too.

Each of us assumes everyone else knows what HE is doing. They all assume we know what WE are doing. We don't...Nothing is going on and nobody knows what it is. Nobody is concealing anything except the fact that he does not understand anything anymore and wishes he could go home.

It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily perceive it as nonsense

If the last to know he's an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected.

When do I see a photograph, when a reflection?

What he did not know then is that it is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

Everything is true, he said. Everything anybody has ever thought.

Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and very often, in fact almost perpetually, he deliberately deceives himself about that little precious fragment as well. A portion of him turns against him and acts like another person, defeating him from inside. A man inside a man. Which is no man at all.

Fat realized that one of two possibilities existed and only two; either Dr. Stone was totally insane – not just insane but totally so – or else in an artful, professional fashion he had gotten Fat to talk; he had drawn Fat out and now knew that Fat was totally insane.

Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally.

Sometimes I think this planet is under a spell, Elias said. We are asleep or in a trance, and something causes us to see what it wants us to see and remember and think what it wants us to remember and think. Which means we're whatever it wants us to be. Which in turn means that we have no genuine existence. We're at the mercy of some kind of whim.