Quotes About Truth

What is there at each moment is 'structural truth,' connected to perspective, to centering, to structurimg. Of course other ways of structuring are possinle, formalizations, from which it results that the current way of structuring is surpassed, that the current way of structuring looks to be a particular case.

There is a fitting together of different perspectival views; there is no fitting together of all of them in an absolute knowledge which is completely decentered and final...The passage from the particular to the universal is never finished.

Art stops human beings from working at their lives for a moment, and in that instant the entire truth of life is found.

We would not know even what the false is, if there were not times when we had distinguished it from the true...If we are to be able to speak of falsity, we do have to have experiences of truth.

For me, philosophy consists in giving another name to what has long been crystallized under the name of God.

Discoveries' in philosophy are always at the same time inventions...Truth is not ready-made in things, and yet, by a 'retrograde movement,' it presents itself to us as existing prior to our act of knowledge. We encounter reality: that is the cause and effect of the knowledge we have of it. This circle is the definition of history, and it is up to the philosopher to learn to live with it.

In the last analysis each one of us knows for his own part that the world as it is, is unacceptable.

The The distinction between the real and the oneiric cannot be identical with the simple distinction between consciousness filled by meaning and consciousness given up to its own void. The two modalities impinge upon one another. Our waking relations with objects and others especially have an oneiric character as a matter of principle: others are present to us in the way that dreams are, the way myths are, and this is enough to question the cleavage between the real and the imaginary.

According to Hegel, one attains the absolute by way of a phenomenology (the appearance of mind; mind in the phenomenon). This is not because the phenomenal mind is on one level of a scale, after which one moves on to the absolute, but because the absolute would not be absolute if it did not appear as absolute. Phenomenology is the whole truth from a certain point of view.

Our assurance of being in the truth is one with our assurance of being in the world.

The destruction of psychological Truth by literal truth is the continual drama of human life.

To get a child's trust - you may know or not - is a very hard thing to do. They're so used to not believing adults - because adults tell tales and lies all the time.

I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.

Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.

I said anything I wanted because I don't believe in children I don't believe in childhood. I don't believe that there's a demarcation. 'Oh you mustn't tell them that. You mustn't tell them that.' You tell them anything you want. Just tell them if it's true. If it's true you tell them.

there is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality

It was always this way: The more people talked, the more they obscured. You didn't need to argue for the truth. You could see it.

Stop believing what you want to believe. It's unbecoming

You will think me lamentably crude: my experience of life has been drawn from life itself.

All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.

Putin is smart enough not to believe his own propaganda. Trump isn't.

The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.

The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the root of all the evil that is in the world

I believe that ideas such as absolute certitude, absolute exactness, final truth, etc. are figments of the imagination which should not be admissible in any field of science... This loosening of thinking seems to me to be the greatest blessing which modern science has given to us. For the belief in a single truth and in being the possessor thereof is the root cause of all evil in the world.