truth

"You must not believe anyone in the search for truth; you have to find out for yourself. But although you are on your own, help will come when it is really needed."

"One of the flabby lines you hear sometimes is, 'Speak truth to power'. Power knows the truth. It's speaking the truth to yourself that's the challenge."

"This book founds a doctrine which is effectively post-Cartesian, or even post-Lacanian, a doctrine of what, for thought, both un-binds the Heidegerean connection between being and truth and institutes…"

"Perhaps the Doors, Curtains, Surface Pictures, Panes of Glass , etc. are metaphors of despair, prompted by the dilemma that our sense of sight causes us to apprehend things, but at the same time restr…"

"Well, now is the time to peel back the foreskin of misconception and apply the wire brush of enlightenment to this mass of sticky half-truths and lies. The truth hurts, but not as much as the conseque…"

"“I didn’t say that,” Szilard said, in a tone that implied that perhaps he had."

"Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality."

"There have been two or three meetings held in the City of London...attended by the same class of people, but not ending up with a resolution promising to pay. On the contrary, we are spending the mone…"

"There are worse things than losing an election; the worst thing is to lose one's convictions and not tell the people the truth."

"The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth."

"I support Fulham because I live two minutes away from the ground, but I'm not a massive football fan. Cricket is the game I'm obsessed with, to be honest, and also despair of."

"Men always tell such silly lies."

"And then there is the magnificent Thierry Henry - someone who has blistering pace and is unbelievable when he is finishing at his best."

"Think of K.L. Saigal and a form emerges. Recall the voice, his distinctive personality and slowly, mysteriously, you can hear the inimitable "Nain heen ko raah dikha prabhu, pug pug thokar khaoon main…"

"It pertains to the very nature of a philosophical question that its answer will not be a "perfectly rounded truth" , grasped in the hand like an apple plucked from a tree."

"Islamic apologists in the West argue furiously that child marriage has nothing to do with Islam, and that the idea that Muhammad married a child is the invention of greasy Islamophobes. In reality, fe…"

"Even the modern word "concept" means "a grasping together," implying that the mind itself, in its act of knowing, functions like the intervening hand . And modern science rejects, as meaningless or us…"

"How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection. An artist is emotional, they think, and uses only his intuition; he sees all at on…"

"...the 'finely polished word' of Hans Fritzsche was as effective as the surgeon's knife in cutting through the putrefying tissue of lies and laying bare the truth."

"I have, in every respect, since I had my appointment, strove to accommodate the business of the department to the plan of jour Excellency's operations. And I can say, with great truth, that ever since…"