Quotes About Truth

sometimes the best response to reality is to go insane

them. Saw a glimpse of it myself. What would

We did not fall because of a moral error; we fell because of an intellectual error: that of taking the phenomenal world as real. Therefore we are morally innocent. It is the Empire in its various disguised polyforms that tells us we have sinned.

That's really an exceedingly sophisticated idea, epistemologically speaking. Does it mean that parts of the world are spurious? Or that sometimes the whole world is spurious? Or that there are plural worlds of which one is real and the others are not? Is there essentially one matrix world from which people derive differing perceptions? So that the world you see is not the world I see?

You discover I'm right," the door said. It sounded smug.

Philip K. Dick

Siempre que hablaba de ti, en realidad, no describía nada. Como si nunca te viera realmente. Como si nadie fuera real de verdad para mí.

Is he sick because he sees this? Or does he see this because he is sick?

Ogni singolo uomo vede soltanto una porzione della verità complessiva; e molto spesso, in realtà quasi sempre, egli deliberatamente, si inganna anche su questo piccolo frammento. Una parte di se stesso gli si rivolta contro e prende ad agire come se fosse un'altra persona, distruggendolo dall'interno. Un uomo all'interno di un uomo. Il che vuol dire nessun uomo del tutto

Listen, Ruth. I saw the fabric of reality split open. I saw—behind. Underneath. I saw what was really there. And I don't want to go back.

Siempre he creído que al menos la mitad de los personajes famosos de la historia no han existido.

It meant that you were seeing into absolute reality. The essence beyond the mere appearance. In your terminology, he thought, what you saw is called - stigmata.

So now we know the truth', Al said. 'Is it the truth?' Al said, 'Sure. Obviously.' 'What a hell of a way to learn it. From the wall of a men's room.' He felt bitter resentment rather than anything else. 'That's how graffiti is; harsh and direct.

Qualquer homem vê apenas uma pequena porção da verdade total, e muitas vezes, na verdade quase sempre de maneira perpétua, ele também se engana deliberadamente em relação a esse pequeno e precioso fragmento. Uma porção dele se volta contra si e age como outra pessoa, derrotando-o por dentro. Um homem dentro de outro homem. O qual não é, em absoluto, um homem. -O homem duplo

We have a hodge-podge of leaks in reality.

Ist die traurigste Realität nicht immer noch besser als die Illusion?

Maybe you're an android, Officer Crams said. With a false memory, like they give them. Had you thought of that?

Uma realidade de sofrimento não é melhor que a mais interessante das ilusões?

Did you know that Ubik is true, and we're in a sort of cave, like Plato said, and they're showing us endless funky films? And now and then reality breaks through, as in Ubik, from our friend who was here once and then died, but has turned back … he talked something about a new view of the Platonic forms, the archetypal forms. But he was unable to explain.

But it if was helping him, what would the criterion be? I mean, you know, if he only dreamed that he heard a voice telling him what to do, how to do it, this is a phantasm of his own mind. And yet, if the results are the same … It raises … Oddly enough, Paul, you'll be amazed to discover that I tend to want to treat the questionness of what is real.

O que ele não sabia na época era que às vezes uma reação adequada à realidade é enlouquecer.

A myth can be picked up by a whole society, believed and taught to the next generation. Gods, fairies, witches—believing a thing doesn't make it true. For centuries, Terrans believed the Earth was flat.

He saw only an empty white expanse, a focused glare, as if there were now no 3-D slide in the projector at all. The light, he thought, that underlies the play of phenomena which we call reality.

it is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane