truth

"It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, however suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true."

"n attractive lie is always going to be more popular than a hard truth."

"The simulacrum is never what hides the truth — it is truth that hides the fact that there is none. The simulacrum is true. — Ecclesiastes"

"It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore."

"Myth can act almost like throwing open a window to reveal reality that is not being touched by the rational, Aristotelian approach."

"We have diversified: We run four restaurants, a hotel, a recording studio, a publishing company, and we have our corporate offices and a lot of other real estate."

"We often hear of bad weather, but in reality no weather is bad. It is all delightful, though in different ways. Some weather may be bad for farmers or crops, but for man all kinds are good. Sunshine i…"

"If the player isn't tricked into believing that the world is real, then there's no point in making the game."

"Everything and everybody is sooner or later identified, defined, and put in perspective. The truth as always is simultaneously better and worse than what the popular myth-making has it."

"It is a great deal easier to set a story afloat than to stop it. If you want truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world, it will…"

"A thousand fools believe a lie, and it’s good as truth."

"The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us."

"Faced by the dire nihilism of our time, we need a greater honesty... The Western search for unifying truth did not come to an end with Christianity, any more than with the physical theories of forty y…"

"I realized a capacity for not feeling lonely carried a very real price, which was the threat of feeling nothing at all."

"They who see the Flying Dutchman never, never reach the shore."

"The truth of the matter is — and I'm always a bit reluctant to say this because people think you're a bit unfeeling. The truth of this, on 9/11, people who — myself and others — were so unbelievably f…"

"A credulous, religious-minded fool, as I've pointed out! And he carried his credulity into the next period of his life, where he believed in one social or philosophical Ism after another, always on th…"

"The great genius does not let his work be determined by the concrete finite conditions that surround him, whilst it is from these that the work of the statesman takes its direction and its termination…"

"Reason not with him, that will deny the principal truths!"

"However, in all honesty, I must say that one must essentially forget that all proofs are transcribed in this formal language. In order to think productively, one must use all the intuitive and informa…"