truth

"Unfortunately, truth is neither a listable nor a decidable property; nor is the truth of a statement of arithmetic. The American logician John Myhill has used the term 'prospective' to characterize th…"

"I honestly believe that history will be kinder to me than the contemporary media, or for that matter, the Opposition parties in Parliament."

"Through the sincerity cultivated by Christian morality the values and ideals established by that morality itself are revealed as fictions."

"Even in the greatest Westerns, the woman is imposed on the action, as a star, and is generally destined to be “had” by the male lead. But she does not exist as a woman. If you cut her out of the film,…"

"The Great Books show ... that even those thinkers of the past who are now often looked upon as the most reactionary, the medieval theologians, insisted, as Aristotle had before them, that the truth of…"

"Any body type can look beautiful, under the right conditions, but let's be honest: It's just easier to wear whats you see on the runway if you're skinny and relatively flat-chested with narrow hips. I…"

"The title of Kandinsky's first great theoretical work, On the Spiritual in Art and in Painting in particular which had a huge influence, thus has a rigorous meaning. It bears a twofold judgment, both …"

"It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire."

"an unmeaning mimicry of the forms of popular institutions where the reality is impossible. What is called public opinion in India is frequently the opinion of a clique, and presents none of the guaran…"

"The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves."

"It is a test , that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."

"We have reached the point where the Objective Logic turns into the Subjective Logic, or, where subjectivity emerges as the true form of objectivity. We may sum up Hegel’s analysis in the following sch…"

"One of the principal motifs of Nietzsche’s work is that Kant had not carried out a true critique because he was not able to pose the problem of critique in terms of values."

"Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth."

"Four billion people say they believe in God, but few genuinely believe. If people believed in God, they would live every minute of their lives in support of that belief. Rich people would give their w…"

"Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done."

"Chaos was a far subtler force than most people realised. It would be so easy to sense if it threw off thunderbolts or sent barely sensed thrummings through the fabric of reality, but it was nothing mo…"

"Wafah Dufour bin Laden, niece of Osama bin Laden has signed a contract to star in a reality show...called Skating with the Nieces of Terrorists."

"What underlies our assignment of probabilities in the real world?"

"Truth is stranger than fiction — to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it."