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Quotes About Truth

Rien n'est vrai que ce qu'on ne dit pas...
~ Jean Anouilh
ANTIGONE: Tell me the truth! I beg you to tell me the truth! When you think about me, when it strikes you suddenly that I am going to belong to you?do you have the feeling that?that a great empty space is being hollowed out inside you, that there is something inside you that is just?dying? HAEMON: Yes, I do, I do.
~ Jean Anouilh
So-called "realist" photography does not capture the "what is." Instead, it is preoccupied with what should not be, like the reality of suffering for example.
~ Jean Baudrillard
The simulacrum now hides, not the truth, but the fact that there is none, that is to say, the continuation of Nothingness.
~ Jean Baudrillard
One may dream of a culture where everyone bursts into laughter when someone says: this is true, this is real.
~ Jean Baudrillard
The fury to unveil the truth, to get at the naked truth, the one which haunts all discourses of interpretation, the obscene rage to uncover the secret, is proportionate to the impossibility of ever achieving this.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Reality itself is too obvious to be true.
~ Jean Baudrillard
All we have left of liberty is an ad-man's illusion.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.
~ Jean Baudrillard
The secret of theory is that truth does not exist.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Il parle couramment la vérité, mais personne ne le comprend car il use d'une langue morte.
~ Jean Cau
It's sad but it^s true how society says her life is alredy over. There's nothing to do and there's nothing to say..
~ Jean Christophe Grangé
Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is telling the truth, you look in the eyes. I have a tendency to believe people.
~ Jean Claude Van Damme
I am a lie who always speaks the truth.
~ Jean Cocteau
The matters I relateAre true lies.
~ Jean Cocteau
If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.
~ Jean Cocteau
I am a lie that always speaks the truth.
~ Jean Cocteau
I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.
~ Jean Cocteau
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
~ Jean Cocteau
Maybe the Europeans once thought the earth was flat, but the Eskimos always knew it was round. One only needed to look at the earth's relatives, the sun and the moon, to know that.
~ Jean Craighead George
Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
~ Jean de La Fontaine