truth

"Because they know all the words, they think they know all the truths."

"Since there is no such thing as absolute rightness and truth, we always pursue the artificial, leading, human truth. We judge and make a truth that excludes other truths. Art plays a formative part in…"

"A lot of people think right-wingers aren't capable of being amusing at all. Not true. Mussolini looked hilarious swinging from that lamppost."

"I think one of the interesting things about the Linux phenomenon is that has been able to keep some kind of control over such an amazingly extended development environment. I’m certainly glad that I d…"

"Yes, they are beautiful... The shirt, the blouse are garments the folds of which yield simple planes and effects that, rightly rendered, are those of true sculpture. But there is something better stil…"

"In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred even when it takes for a subject the worst excesses of desire; since it has in view only the sincerity of observation, it cannot debase itself. A …"

"Adjectives modify nouns, adverbs modify verbs, advertisers modify the truth."

"Responsible journalism is hard. It isn't public relations. A responsible journalist digs for the truth, she doesn't just take her subject's agenda and run with it. That isn't journalism, that's "gossi…"

"Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth."

"Is not that perhaps a thing worthy of admiration… that by means of the visible absurdity the soul may immediately feel that the words are veils and believe the truth to be a mystery?"

"But don't you realize, that's where I sail."

"It's the place where my prediction from the sixties finally came true: "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is, "I…"

"A plan of large size can be made a reality either by an intensely capitalistic method of development or by a genuinely socialistic approach. The Capitalistic way is ruled out by the fact that the poli…"

"The trouble with fiction… is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense."

"Contrast his uncompromising honesty and unquestionable abilities with his characterization as Jat leader, casteist, windbag, stubborn, opportunist and now obscurantist"

"The albino reflected on the power of the human mind to build a fantasy and then defend it with complete determination as a reality."

"Beware of the possible reason some people are honestly down and out - it is because they tried to copy the many who are superficially doing well."

"The experienced traveler always flies first class so that when the engine falls off the plane, she’s drinking champagne."

"A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason. A man should feel free to tell his chief executive to his face, 'I think you're d…"

"There is no compromise possible between catering to woke students and maintaining journalistic standards. We all know that this is true. If you feed the beast, it only gets hungrier, and is never full…"