truth

"Atmosphere is the medium through which we see all things. In order, therefore, to see them in their true value on a photograph, as we do in Nature, atmosphere must be there. Atmosphere softens all lin…"

"If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, they usually admit it — often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect."

"I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not j…"

"One is ashamed to say how little is needed for all men to be delivered from those calamities which now oppress them; it is only needful not to lie."

"There aint but one truth, said John Grady. The truth is what happened. It aint what come out of somebody's mouth."

"It is a consolation to remember that corruption pushed beyond a certain point provides its own remedy, and that this sort of thing cannot indefinitely continue; but it is less consoling to remember an…"

"Endurance means that failures have to be both accepted and refused: accepted as a sign that fresh efforts now need to be made, and refused as a signal that we may now desist from effort altogether. … …"

"In such circumstances, in view of the incredibly widespread nature of the distortions of Marxism, our first task is to restore the true doctrine of Marx on the state."

"It is not yet hostility around me; but it is already a rupture. With this truth that clings to me alone, amid the world and its phantoms, am I not indeed rushing into a sort of tragedy impossible to m…"

"Sexual desire has to be dead as a doornail before a man and a woman can be genuinely at peace in a platonic relationship."

"I am up to date only sporadically. I live firmly in the world of art, where reality and fantasy are one."

"So many people have said it that it must be true."

"A man who for a long time has gone around hiding a secret becomes mentally deranged. At this point one would imagine that his secret would have to come out, but despite his derangement his soul still …"

"The strength of ideas rests on their relationship to reality."

"Why expect a false theory of the world, i.e. classical physics, to yield a true account of consciousness?"

"Whoever has the Americans as allies does not need any enemies."

"What rules the world is idea, because ideas define the way reality is perceived."

"We would make our heroes shallow,” he answered, the words very slow and almost sad. “We would make them brittle. It is they who must remind us of the true meaning of strength."

"Sincerity is not only effective and honourable, it is also much less difficult than is commonly supposed. To take a trifling example: If for some reason I cannot, or do not, choose to verify a quotati…"

"I honestly beleave it iz better tew know nothing than two know what ain't so."