Quotes About Truth

As your lover describes you, so you are.

Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.

In the discourse of today's financial backers of research, the only credible goal is power. Scientists, technicians, and instruments are purchased not to find truth, but to augment power.

A new problem appears: devices that optimize the performance of the human body for the purpose of producing proof require additional expenditures. No money, no proof - and that means no verification of statements and no truth. The games of scientific language become the games of the rich, in which whoever is the wealthiest has the best chance of being right. An equation between wealth, efficiency, and truth is thus established.

Science has always been in conflict with narratives. Judged by the yardstick of science, the majority of them prove to be fables. But to the extent that science does not restrict itself to stating useful regularities and seeks truth, it is obliged to legitimate the rules of its own game.

I want to put strongly and completely all that is necessary, for things weakly said might as well not be said at all.

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

People declare as much, without, apparently, looking into the matter very closely. They seem able to dispense with the conscientious observer's scruples, when inflating their bladder of theory.

It's unsettling to see, emboldened by the veracity of black and white, the most deeply suppressed grapplings of your own smothered conscience, printed right there in the newspaper for all the world to read.

She's been afraid for so long that now she can't catch up to the facts: it was already him, and the rest of her family. It really did happen; all those years of worry did not prevent it.

empty carafes of wine on their table. "We should get one of those," Sebastián said. And though it was not yet noon, Lydia agreed, and they mostly drank their lunch that day instead of eating it. She cut her eyes at him across the table and did not say the things she wanted to say, that it was asinine of him to write this stuff, that he was turning himself into a target, that she wanted no part of his righteous campaign of truth, that she hoped he was satisfied with

todos sabem que o caminho para a verdadeira audácia passa sempre, primeiro, pelo fingimento.

Because everything else is just chingaderas.

An honest man nearly always thinks justly.

Nature does not deceive us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.

I shall always maintain that whoso says in his heart, "There is no God," while he takes the name of God upon his lips, is either a liar or a madman.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.

Photography is truth.

Le cinéma, c'est vingt-quatre fois la vérité par seconde.

If you want to make a documentary you should automatically go to the fiction, and if you want to nourish your fiction you have to come back to reality.

Truth is in all things, even partly, in error.

The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.