Quotes About Truth

Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all - to see life as it is, and not as it ought to be.

When the words are suspicious, go after them, insist they tell us what they mean. Go after the meaning of the words. And if the speakers say they are the kind who call things as they see them, that they don't mince words, and call a spade a spade if not a bloody shovel, go after them even harder. They're often the worst liars of the lot.

You know what you did? You embraced the insanity you were telling us about. – Don DeLillo, Great Jones Street

A lot of existential questions will be answered just after the "Fuck." As in life itself.

His old priests might have told him there's sins of commission not omission. It's not always the things you do but the things you don't do that will cost you your soul. Sometimes it's not the spoken lie but the unspoken truth that opens the door to betrayal.

Now he seeks truth in silence. He seeks God in the same, although he has come to believe that truth and God are the same. Truth, stillness, and God.

Betrayals start that way, with lies hidden in the shadows of silence.

He seeks God in the same, although he has come to believe that truth and God are the same. Truth

Even a North American defense lawyer is right sometimes," Aguilar says. "Like a broken clock, twice a day.

You set someone straight, you have to go on the crooked road yourself. Sometimes you get lost.

At least, at last, tell yourself the truth. You know exactly how you got here. Step by motherfucking step. Our ends know our beginnings but the reverse isn't true.

Do you know what history is?" Peter asks. "History?" "Yeah." "I dunno," Frankie says, "it's things that happened." "No," Peter says, "it's what people say happened.

La Dama de la Justicia lleva los ojos vendados porque no puede soportar ver lo que ocurre.

mirrors reveal so little

Over my forty-year career as a defense attorney, I regularly came into contact with people who lied, cheated, and tried to bend the system so that they would come out on top. Most of them worked for the government. —OSCAR GOODMAN, BEING OSCAR

Truth, justice and the American way. The American way is: truth and justice maybe say hello in the hallway, send each other a Christmas card, but that's about the extent of their relationship.

However much the writer might long to be, in his work, simple, honest, and straightforward, these virtues are no longer available to him. He discovers that in being simple, honest, and straightforward, nothing much happens: he speaks the speakable, whereas what we are looking for is the as-yet unspeakable, the as-yet unspoken.

Truth ... is a hard apple, whether one is throwing it or catching it.

We are what we have been told about ourselves. We are the sum of the messages we have received. The true messages. The false messages.

I have followed holiness, I have taught truth, and I have been most in the main things not that I thought the things concerning our times little, but that I thought none could do anything to purpose in God's great and public matters, till they were right in their conditions.

I come now to tell you for what I am brought here to die, and to give you an account of my faith, which I shall do as in the sight of the living God before whom I am shortly to stand.

If you play a video game on your computer, such as "Doom" or "Uncharted", you see compelling 3D worlds with 3D objects. Yet the information is entirely 2D, limited by the number of pixels on the screen. The same is true when you look away from your computer to the world around you. It too has pixels, and all the information is 2D.

The math is not the territory.

Steven Pinker sums up the argument well: "We are organisms, not angels, and our minds are organs, not pipelines to the truth. Our minds evolved by natural selection to solve problems that were life-and-death matters to our ancestors, not to commune with correctness."36