truth

"There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil."

"Newman would be my favorite supporting character. I mean, when I got to have a real evil nemesis like Superman would have, that was a dream come true for me."

"Association, applied to land, shares the economic advantage of large-scale landed property, and first brings to realization the original tendency inherent in land-division, namely, equality. In the sa…"

"Science and art both project the world along certain coordinates. Differences in form are due only to differences in the coordinates. All realistic forms are projections along the fixed, plane coordin…"

"Is it fault of mine that truth is so awful as to produce such effects? Did I seek out the princess, and beg to be presented to her? No, I was avoiding her, when they almost dragged me before her, and …"

"“I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue."

"It doesn't do to say that heresy produces the development of doctrine, because that annoys the theologians. But it is true to say that as a matter of history the development of doctrine has been large…"

"I can imagine anything! That's the trouble with me. I can imagine things now — this minute. I could even make them sound all right, but of course none of them would be true."

"Launcelot: ...truth will out"

"The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth."

"...classic philosophy maintained that change, and consequently time, are marks of inferior reality, holding that true and ultimate reality is immutable and eternal. Human reasons, all too human, have …"

"The personal made universal is art’s truth."

"The only originality I claim is that for me this truth goes hand in hand with the intellectual certainty that the human spirit is capable of creating in our time a new mentality, an ethical mentality.…"

"What we’re seeing is a manifestation of the layered nature of our descriptions of reality. At the deepest level we currently know about, the basic notions are things like “spacetime,” “quantum fields,…"

"Aristotle’s perspective is not ours. Modern political discussion is imbued with a concern for individual human rights; we look to institutions to hold accountable those who wield power over their fell…"

"I am … aware that there are those who feel that national unity could be hastened by pressing some buttons and out comes the results, I want to remind you again that the attainment of genuine reconcili…"

"Ah, I remember I used to come here as a child and it’s still really... shit, isn’t it, let’s be honest."

"Mathematics is the only true metaphysics."

"For the anarchist, rebellion is not only a statement of will but a statement of rightness and truth."

"People always said that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, a…"