truth

"What is false does not become true simply because people shout it. What is right does not change because it is inconvenient."

"The biosphere is now enriched with an other stratum, mid-way between the material and the spiritual, and that is the web of connections, a “virtual” reality made of communication by means of the new m…"

"That sounds like post hoc realpolitik rationalizing bullshit."

"Hey you! Don't be silly! Put a rubber on your willie!"

"When the real is no longer what it was, nostalgia assumes its full meaning."

"He tells nothing but lies."

"It is not worth while to consider whether a truth be useful—it is enough that it is a truth."

"Now precisely because Galilean science is, in the formation of its concepts, the technic of a specific Lebenswelt, it does not and cannot transcend this Lebenswelt. It remains essentially within the b…"

"It wasn’t quite “build the wall” or “lock her up,” but “” was a signature Donald Trump slogan. ... This was always a fantasy. The oldest story in Washington is a new president elected on a pledge to c…"

"Reason as an organ for perceiving the true nature of reality and determining the guiding principles of our lives has come to be regarded as obsolete."

"Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive."

"I write as a person, as a woman, as an Asian American, and, if I fulfill my political obligations in being honest, then great…"

"I can’t tell you if the stories are true. Men lie without meaning to. They talk as if they had been part of a thing that happened to someone they never knew and only heard of by sixth remove."

"No one would listen to me when I tried to protest that foxhunting was cruel. And as a young boy it was hard to argue with my elders about being disrespectful, but it seemed to me that if you didn't wa…"

"Nervous like a knife, he cuts clear through hypocrisy and falsehood."

"She was afraid of men, with good reason, but she need not fear all of them. Cai loved her and somehow always would. But above all, she could trust him, because dishonesty wasn’t in him. Not always a g…"

"It has actually been made a matter of boast that Christianity has no secrets, that whatever it has to say it says to all, and whatever it has to teach it teaches to all. Its truths are supposed to be …"

"I conceive that the founders of the mysteries had a real meaning and were not mere triflers when they intimated in a figure long ago that he who passes unsanctified and uninitiated into the world belo…"

"Could one count such dilettantes and old spinsters as that mawkish apostle of virginity, Mainländer, as a genuine German? In the last analysis he probably was a Jew ."

"When I feel overwhelmed by misfortune, the greatest joy that the Lord can give me is to go to the altar, to put my forehead against it , and to feel the presence of the only reality. Not only does cal…"