truth

"Truth in labeling" by Gary Schwartz in Art in America"

"It is my purpose in writing these Memoirs to adhere rigidly to truth, at least in its essence. Should I succeed in this, my work would be a very remarkable one, almost unique."

"So in this idea, then, everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality. Not God in a politically kingly sense, but God in the sense of being the self, the deep-down basic whatever there is. And you're…"

"Film is an artificial construct. It pretends to reconstruct reality. But it doesn't do that—it's a manipulative form. It's a lie that can reveal the truth. But if a film isn't a work of art, it's just…"

"and where men build on false grounds, the more they build, the greater is the ruine:"

"True progress is not possible without a variety of opinions, for it is only through the friction of variously constituted intellects and through the stimulating effect they have on one another that so…"

"Reality is what we want it to be or what we do not want it to be, but it is not our wanting or our not wanting that makes it so."

"In war-as-spectacle, appearances could be more important than reality, because appearance often ended up determining reality."

"Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower in a truth."

"The Little House books are stories of long ago. The way we live and your schools are much different now, so many changes have made living and learning easier. But the real things haven't changed. It i…"

"Don’t come lecturing us about liberty. You need a reality check. Don’t act like a spoiled rude child. Here you will only find dignity and sovereignty. Here we haven’t invaded anyone. Here we don’t tor…"

"The only source of the true Ridiculous is affectation"

"Paradoxes often arise because theory routinely refuses to be subordinate to reality."

"In many cases a dull proof can be supplemented by a geometric analogue so simple and beautiful that the truth of a theorem is almost seen at a glance."

"Each man had only one genuine vocation — to find the way to himself"

"The Lord being the author both of mirth and gravity, is it not lawful in itself for the truth to use either of these ways, when the circumstances do make it lawful?"

"Arnold Schwarzenegger is the governor of your state. How am I, as a comedian, supposed to create a reality that encompasses that?"

"The larger the corporation, the greater the risk that you are flying blind."

"It was not till the earlier part of the sixteenth century that geological phenomena began to attract the attention of the Christian nations. At that period a very animated controversy sprung up in Ita…"

"It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavours look interesting and lively; that was merely an unintended side effect. I don't wish to denigrate a sport…"