truth

"You see, I have fucked an amputee and a set of twins. If you add in a midget, you are looking at a legendary trifecta. How many other people can say they have done that? Seriously, raise your hand if …"

"We are black, it is true, but tell us, gentle men, you who are so judicious, what is the law that says that the black man must belong to and be the property of the white man?"

"In sober truth no person can ever be truly responsible for another human being. Each one of us faces up to the universe alone, and the universe is what it is and it doesn’t soften the rules for any of…"

"...the quality that arouses most surprise in Thomism is its astonishingly scientific method. Avowedly science has aimed at nothing but the reduction of multiplicity to unity, and has excommunicated, a…"

"Few people have noticed that there have been no communal riots in India since Vajpayee became prime minister. Remember the Congress' record of one major communal riot every few months? Meerut, Maliana…"

"The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual."

"The old and oft-repeated proposition "Totum est majus sua parte" may be applied without proof only in the case of entities that are based upon whole and part; then and only then is it an undeniable co…"

"People that make up stuff and call it truth have the power to imagine all kinds of nonsense. But that’s what it is all about. It really is make believe, and it took me the longest time to figure that …"

"The bottom line is that civil society simply cannot function without default to truth…I can’t converse with you, for instance, if I subject every statement that comes out of your mouth to critical scr…"

"It is in the nature of truth not to be at fault."

"There are only two types of state in Europe: small states, and small states that have not yet realized they are small."

"General principles are not the less true or important because, from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither see nor fee…"

"The struggle for existence in a universe we did not choose, and the burden of being a member of the only race which values objective, verifiable truth as an end in itself, makes us sometimes long for …"

"Unlike a well-defined, precise game like Russian roulette, where the risks are visible to anyone capable of multiplying and dividing by six, one does not observe the barrel of reality."

"The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world — and the most dangerous."

"True human progress is based less on the inventive mind than on the conscience of men such as Brandeis."

"The political Right currently runs the country. That's very annoying, but pretending it isn't true is foolhardy. What is really annoying is that in the late 1970s some of us were giving speeches and w…"

"You wished to be only a spectator, the gentleman in the balcony who wipes the glasses of his lorgnette in order to lose none of the comedy. Well, you could not do so. That role is not permitted a man.…"

"Seek out reality, leave things that seem."

"I have always found that the less we speak of our intentions, the more chance there is of our realizing them."