truth

"You can be standing right in front of the truth and not necessarily see it, and people only get it when they’re ready to get it."

"For Cioran the aphoristic style is less a principle of reality than a principle of knowing: that it’s the destiny of every profound idea to be quickly checkmated by another idea, which it itself has i…"

"Science seems to be at war with itself.... Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism to be false. Therefore naive realism, if true, is false; therefore it is false."

"They didn't begin telling the truth in the Soviet Union until after it collapsed, did they?"

"It is no use trying to fight these forces without giving up the idea of conversion, which I assure you is the deadliest poison which ever sapped the fountain of truth."

"It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both."

"There is perhaps no truer sign that a man is really advancing than that he is learning to forget himself, that he is losing the natural thoughts about self in the thought of One higher than himself, t…"

"Resignation as to knowledge of the world is for me not an irretrievable plunge into a scepticism which leaves us to drift about in life like a derelict vessel. I see in it that effort of honesty which…"

"I hope there are none of you, corrupted with the doctrine taught by wicked men for the worst purposes, and received by the malignant credulity of envy and ignorance, which is, that the men who act upo…"

"Here lies one whose name was writ in water."

"Is it possible to create a maintain a true culture, a strong and flourishing culture, through the medium of pictoral and oral apparatus?"

"It was all very well, the alethiometer telling her to be truthful, but she knew what would happen if she told the whole truth. She had to tread carefully and just avoid direct lies."

"It's possible, but not interesting," Lonnrot answered. "You will reply that reality hasn't the slightest need to be of interest. And I'll answer you that reality may avoid the obligation to be interes…"

"Optimism is true moral courage."

"For the Earth is a globe in a void the truth there's no up nor down to it."

"No honest man needs more than 10 rounds in any gun."

"Pretending was like that. Things seemed to make themselves up, once you got going."

"The fundamental optimism which is an element of all true nobility … is obviously related to courage since it refuses to be discouraged in the face of what sometimes seems overwhelming evidence."

"And I will ask the Father and he will give you another helper to be with you forever, 17 the spirit of the truth, which the world cannot receive, because it neither sees it nor knows it. You know it, …"

"One believes in the truthfulness of a man because of his long experience with the man, and because the man has always told a consistent story. But no man has told so consistent a story as nature."