Quotes About Truth

The atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors.

My life was one very long process of lying and lying again, to figure out how to cover those other lies.

What we seek we do not find - that would be too trim and tidy for so reckless and opulent a thing as life. It is something else we find.

It's making a statement about what life is, really. And I'm going to end the line with it.

Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.

We now operate in a world in which we can assume neither competence nor good faith from the authorities. The consequences of this simple, devastating realization define American life.

The fact speak for themselves.

A lie to get out of something, or take an advantage for oneself, that's one thing; but a lie to make life more interesting—well, that's entirely different.

I don't lie; I improve on my life.

To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?

We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?

Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.

It is the mind that weaves the dream of life, it convinces us that what we see is what is apparent and what is real, and that there's nothing else outside of our perception.

If life is an illusion it's a pretty painful one.

Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.

I'm not trying to find answers anymore. I'm trying to live what I know.

Whatsoever you hide goes on growing, and whatsoever you expose, if it is wrong it disappears, evaporates in the sun, and if it is right it is nourished.

When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.

The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.

Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.

My view of life is, that it's next to impossible to convince anybody of anything.

We tell the real truth of our life by the stories we repeatedly tell.