Quotes About Truth

it is a very risky thing for anyone to go about proclaiming the truth simply because he finds himself in possession of concrete documentary proofs or on the evidence of his own eyes, which is always overestimated.

No vivimos en la realidad sino en nuestra imagen de ella.

Cuentan que desde entonces, muchas veces uno se encuentra con la furia, ciega, cruel, terrible y enfadada, pero si nos damos el tiempo de mirar bien, encontramos que esta furia que vemos es sólo un disfraz y que detrás del disfraz de furia, en realidad está escondida la tristeza.

Gerçek benim düÅŸündüÄŸüm gibi deÄŸil. Olmas? gerektiÄŸi gibi deÄŸil. Bana olaca??n? söyledikleri gibi deÄŸil. Yar?n olaca?? gibi deÄŸil. Benim d???mdaki gerçek neyse odur.

We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.

I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me...

With relief, with humiliation, with terror, he understood that he too was a mere appearance, dreamt by another.

The years go by, and I've told the story so many times that I'm not sure anymore whether I actually remember it or whether I just remember the words I tell it with.

Fácilmente aceptamos la realidad, acaso porque intuimos que nada es Real

Espero ser juzgado por lo que he escrito, no por lo que he dicho o me han hecho decir. Yo soy sincero en este momento, pero quizás dentro de media hora ya no esté de acuerdo con lo que he dicho.

A la realidad le gustan las simetrías y los leves anacronismos

Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.

The metaphysicians of Tlön are not looking for truth, nor even for an approximation of it; they are after a kind of amazement.

Historical truth, for him, is not what has happened; it is what we judge to have happened.

Según la doctrina idealista, los verbos vivir y soñar son rigurosamente sinónimos.

Why a should a dream be any less real than this table. Or Macbeth be less real than today's newspaper.

To refute him is to become contaminated with unreality.

If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his readers to believe it.

Crees que la Caída es otra cosa que ignorar que estamos en el Paraíso?

El problema no es que mientas. El problema es que te creo

Creo que la primera lectura es la verdadera, y que en las siguientes nos engañamos a nosotros mismos con la creencia de que se repite la sensación, la impresión.

Scattered through the ordinary world, there are books and artifacts and perhaps people who are like doorways into impossible realms, of impossible and contradictory truth.

Cuando, en Ginebra o Zurich, la fortuna Quiso que yo también fuera poeta, Me impuse, como todos, la secreta Obligación de definir la luna. Pensaba que el poeta es aquel hombre Que, como el rojo Adán del paraíso, Impone a cada cosa su preciso Y no verdadero y no sabido nombre.

Ah,' said the journalist, 'so the entire thing is your own invention. I thought it was true because you gave the name of the street.' I did not dare tell him that the naming of streets is not much of a feat.