Quotes About Truth

Tas bija br?niš??gi un piln?gi sadom?ti. Viss bija ne?sts. T? nebija dz?ve. T? nebija Par?ze. Bija augusts. Es nebiju t?rists. Es nebiju vecpuisis. Es meloju pats sev. Sev, vi?ai, savai ?imenei. Vi?a nebija mu??e, un, kad pien?ca pa?iru laiks, telefona zvani un meli, vi?a aizbrauca. Pie lidostas durv?m vi?a man pav?st?ja: ''Es m??in?šu dz?vot bez jums. Es ceru, man izdosies…

Où s'arrêtait la sincérité et où commençait le jeu avec lui?

You get so close to, and so wound up in, what you are trying to do that you can lose perspective. Your mind may trick you into seeing what you want to see, not what is really there.

Poetry is a presentiment of the truth.

Religion is a drug, and to take drugs is degrading,' he said. 'You must learn to look life in the face. Throw away your cowardly drugs, and see the truth, the ugly, cruel, ungodly truth, as it really is.

Perhaps somewhere in the universe there was a touchstone that she had never found, perhaps there was a clue that would make everything simple and clear--if only she knew where to look....

I had a friend, a lover. Or did I dream it? So many dreams are crowding upon me now that I can scarcely tell true from false: dreams like light imprisoned in bright mineral caves; hot, heavy dreams; ice-age dreams; dreams like machines in the head.

Let parents, therefore, not scruple to use the power God and Nature have put into their hands for the advantage of their offspring. Let them not fear to impress them with prejudices for whatever is fair and honorable in action — whatever is useful and important in systematic truth. Let such prejudices be wrought into the very texture of the soul.

There is a place where travelers rest, And lay their heads in peace. Returning to the Eagle's nest, All war within will cease. O Lamb of God, Our heart's desire, O Truth in Word, Eternal Fire, O Lamb of God, God's chosen Son, Receive them when Their race is run.

God had nothing to do with it, or only as much as He has something to do with everything. It was all just as I imagined it would be. A huge lot of hocus-pocus. For hours they put me to the acid test. Except I never imagined that they would sit there and write down all the rubbish I was spouting, and that after that I had to write my name under it, saying that I myself had really spouted all that.

And all the time they threatened me with everything they could possibly threaten me with. All that was lacking was hellfire. They really wanted to make me think they were the Last Judgment. But they are not the slightest bit all-knowing. All they know is what you tell them.

Noch hatte keine Schuld ihre Helligkeit getrübt, keine Ahnung, dass das Herz unter dem Druck des Lebens sich auf allerlei einlassen muss, was es dann später vorgibt, nicht begriffen zu haben- aber warum hat es dann so bang und hastig geschlagen?-, [...]

Such lies were a lot better, less hurtful than the truth would have been.

had read so many paper-backs she was having trouble working out what was real life and what was fiction.

To valorise common sense is naive, if not dangerous. For it does not follow that those formations of knowledge which coincide with the discourses of common sense manifest some truth beyond analysis. Rather, the convergence of knowledge and common sense may be understood more profitably as licensing the operation of unexamined ideological structures.

Law and Justice took over the state public broadcaster—also in violation of the constitution—firing popular presenters and experienced reporters. Their replacements, recruited from the far-right extremes of the online media, began running straightforward ruling-party propaganda, sprinkled with easily disprovable lies, at taxpayers' expense.

The loss of freedom, tyranny, abuse, hunger would all have been easier to bear if not for the compulsion to call them freedom, justice, the good of the people Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Lies, by their very nature partial and ephemeral, are revealed as lies when confronted with language's striving for truth. But here all the means of disclosure had been permanently confiscated by the police. —Aleksander Wat, My Century

The emotional appeal of a conspiracy theory is in its simplicity. It explains away complex phenomena, accounts for chance and accidents, offers the believer the satisfying sense of having special, privileged access to the truth.

in an information sphere without authorities—political, cultural, moral—and no trusted sources, there is no easy way to distinguish between conspiracy theories and true stories. False, partisan, and often deliberately misleading narratives now spread in digital wildfires, cascades of falsehood that move too fast for fact checkers to keep up.

Together we can make old and misunderstood words like liberalism mean something again; together we can fight back against lies and liars; together we can rethink what democracy should look like in a digital age.

El atractivo emocional de una teoría conspiranoica reside en su simplicidad. Explica fenómenos complejos, da razón del azar y los accidentes, ofrece al creyente la satisfactoria sensación de tener un acceso especial y privilegiado a la verdad. Para quienes se convierten en guardianes del Estado unipartidista, la repetición de esas teorías conspiranoicas también trae otra recompensa: el poder.

Anne Applebaum

J'accuse," published in 1898, Emile Zola

It felt uncomfortable to lie to someone who was being kind. She hadn't known a lie could have a physical weight.