Quotes About Truth

Just for the record: happiness is not bullshit.

That's really what all books are, isn't it? I mean, lists of secrets and things you only wish you'd done - a sort of deathbed confession where you're trying to get it all out while the lights are still on.

Good books are always about everything.

There's no prison worse than "I promise.

I suppose the things that transform your life don't appear as you fancifully imagine they will.

Santa Claus is a lie but if you think that's bad, check out what 'fuck' really means.

Not a very pretty world, is it?" "Which one?

Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You know that it is not real, that you are someone else, and yet you know that it is absolutely true.

If the true Church was really lost at some point, how can you know that your version of it is a true restoration? Falling back on sola scriptura does not solve this problem, since all the descendants of the Reformation, divided into hundreds of denominations and tens of thousands of independent congregations, all claim to be simply teaching the Bible.

The most damning charge against the doctrine is that it changes the words of Christ Himself: "But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me" (John 15:26). Jesus did not say, "who proceeds from the Father and the Son," but only, "who proceeds from the Father.

In this nonfundamentalist understanding of faith, practice is more important than theory, love more important than law, and mystery is seen as an insight into truth rather than an obstacle. It is the great lie of our time that all religious faith has to be fundamentalist to be valid.

The Matrix doesn't want you to know this!

By understanding how the same scene can appear different, depending on the viewpoint from which it is perceived, we learn to separate the accidents of viewpoint from the properties of the thing itself. By treating subjectivity objectively, we master it.

Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.

The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie.

From all his father had said, the newspapers in his time had always been careful to discover the truth so that they should not inadvertently print it.

The more the bullshit, the less the action as a rule,

I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth and then I can fly free.

When it's all over, you'll realize that the answer is already within you.

But do you know when stories stop being stories? The moment someone begins to believe in them.

Life, it turns out, isn't poetry! And do you know why? Because it's so resistant to criticism!

There's a grain of truth in every fairy tale.. Love and blood. They both posses a mighty power. Wizards and learned men have been racking their brains over this for years, but they haven't arrived at anything except that-" "That what, Geralt?" "It has to be true love

Now you're lying, Dandelion.' 'Not lying, just embellishing, and there's a difference.

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