truth

"The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self."

"And then we come to the physics engine. Oh, the physics engine, for which so much praise has been sung. What they say is all true. It is fantastic the way you can pick up boxes, the way they fall, the…"

"We know how to speak many falsehoods which resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things."

"All that Shakespeare says of the king, yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner feels to be true of himself."

"Yet this is a truth people so easily seem to forget and begin to prize local, sectional or provincial interests above and regardless of the national interests. It naturally pains me to find the curse …"

"Layla’s story, though not always accurate, was far more interesting than the truth."

"With women in general he was truthful and sincere and would talk philosophy or Canon Law to them on the slightest provocation. Women cannot understand honesty in a man."

"Legendary King Midas never knew the feel of silk or a human hand after everything he touched turned to gold. Humans are stuck in a similar Midas-like predicament: we can't directly experience the true…"

"Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way."

"What I've seen from being in this access to information field for so long is that it used to be quite a niche interest, and it's gone mainstream. Everybody, increasingly, around the world, wants to kn…"

"You should always tell the truth, she thought, not because one lie leads to another, but rather because one lie could so easily lead you to that terrifying position from which, with just the help of a…"

"Human consensus does not generate reality. Were it able to do so, the Sun would have taken to orbiting the Earth some time ago."

"Nature is for art the garb of the Eternal. The real is the finite expression and representation of the true ; forms are the limits affixed by time and space to the power of life. Nature, reality, and …"

"Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it."

"The 2008 financial meltdown is the result of under-regulated markets built on an ideology of free market capitalism and unlimited economic growth. The fundamental problem is that the underlying assump…"

"The possibility of noncongruence, of discrepancy, in many ways already presupposes that individuals as well as collective entities are related to their own lives and to social reality not only in the …"

"Since one cannot create 'depth' by carving a hole in the picture, and since one should not attempt to create the illusion of depth by tonal gradation, depth as a plastic reality must be two dimensions…"

"It is not enough to speak; you must know words. When you have said, "I am in pain," or when you have said, "I am right," you have said nothing in reality, you have only spoken to yourself. The real pr…"

"If economic reality is actually so complex that it can only be described by complicated mathematical models that add epicycles to epicycles and externalities to externalities, then the reality should …"

"My brain reels," moaned Homer the man. "Reality melts away."