Quotes about Truth

The trouble with fiction, said John Rivers, is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.

But God doesn't change.' 'Men do, though.' 'What difference does that make?' 'All the difference in the world.

Whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth and beauty that mattered.

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

In a world of universal deciet telling the truth is an revolutionary act

Unmentioned, what is can become as though it were not.

Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can't. Whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth or beauty that mattered. Happiness has got to be paid for. It hasn't been very good for truth of course. But it's been very good for happiness.

The power to respond to reason and truth exists in all of us. But so, unfortunately, does the tendency to respond to unrea

We must learn how to handle words effectively; but at the same time we must preserve and, if necessary, intensify our ability to look at the world directly and not through that half opaque medium of concepts, which distorts every given fact into the all too familiar likeness of some generic label or explanatory abstraction.

The trouble with fiction is that it makes too much sense, whereas reality never makes sense.

We make an idol of truth itself; for truth apart from charity is not God, but his image and idol, which we must neither love nor worship. Pascal