Quotes About Factuality

Dreaminess is, among other things, a state of suspended recognition, and a response to too much useless and complicated factuality. Its symptoms can be a long-term interest in the weather, or a sustained soaring feeling, or a bout of the stares that you sometimes can not even know about except in retrospect, when the time may seem fogged.

If you tell a true story, you can't be wrong.

They are properly described as works of fiction, with the understanding that fiction does not imply lack of truth so much as a willingness to refashion factuality in the service of drama, and perhaps in search of a higher truth.

HERE IS THE truth

Modern biblical literalism with its emphasis on factuality is not only very different from what "the literal meaning of a text" has meant for most of Christian history; it also has consequences that minimally are unfortunate and unnecessary and more seriously obscure and distort what the Bible and being Christian are about. Indeed, it discredits the Bible and Christianity in the minds of many people.

The modern preoccupation with factuality has had a pervasive and distorting effect on how we see the Bible and Christianity.

Critical thinking is an unavoidable part of growing up. We do not become adults without it. But in the modern world, this stage often corrodes religious belief. Modern Western ways of thinking are very much shaped by the identification of truth with factuality. And generally accepted modern knowledge calls into question the factuality of much of the Bible and of religions more generally.

Beene-beene. The truest truth.

Factuality itself depends for its continued existence upon the existence of the nontotalitarian world.

Under normal circumstances the liar is defeated by reality, for which there is no substitute; no matter how large the tissue of falsehood that an experienced liar has to offer, it will never be large enough, even if he enlists the help of computers, to cover the immensity of factuality.

The writer's job is to tell the truth.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.

Every single fact I state in 'Fahrenheit 9/11' is the absolute and irrefutable truth...Do not let anyone say this or that isn't true. If they say that, they are lying.

Objective reality - otherwise known as the truth - matters.

The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.

The truth speaks for itself.

It's not pretty, but it's veracious.

Nothing here is more fabulous than the truth

In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.

Waar gebeurd is geen excuus.

Fuck the epistemic modality; this is alethic modality we're talking now, not factuality but possibility.

I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.