All Quotes By Tag: Truth

“The only true thing is what’s in front of you right now.”

“I could forget that part, but it had to have been true.”

“Max Lucado says that ‘A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.’ That is true and a man who wants to find out the truth must also do the same thing!”

“Truth for anyone is a very complex thing. For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those things you include. What lies beyond the margin of the text? The photographer frames the shot; writers frame their world. Mrs Winterson objected to what I had put in, but it seemed to me that what I had left out was the story’s silent twin. There are so many things that we can’t say, because they are too painful. We hope that the things we can say will soothe the rest, or appease it in some way. Stories are compensatory. The world is unfair, unjust, unknowable, out of control. When we tell a story we exercise control, but in such a way as to leave a gap, an opening. It is a version, but never the final one. And perhaps we hope that the silences will be heard by someone else, and the story can continue, can be retold. When we write we offer the silence as much as the story. Words are the part of silence that can be spoken. Mrs Winterson would have preferred it if I had been silent.Do you remember the story of Philomel who is raped and then has her tongue ripped out by the rapist so that she can never tell? I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silenced. All of us, when in deep trauma, find we hesitate, we stammer; there are long pauses in our speech. The thing is stuck. We get our language back through the language of others. We can turn to the poem. We can open the book. Somebody has been there for us and deep-dived the words. I needed words because unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven. He or she has to learn to forgive him or herself.”

“All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn’t protect you from the truth.”

“Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.”

“Everything that is,casts a shadow”

“A desire for privacy does not imply shameful secrets; Moglen argues, again and again, that without anonymity in discourse, free speech is impossible, and hence also democracy. The right to speak the truth to power does not shield the speaker from the consequences of doing so; only comparable power or anonymity can do that.”

“You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable.”

“La verite pour l’homme, c’est ce qui fait de lui un homme.”

“— Я верю в величие нации.— Оно только пережиток предприимчивости и напористости.— В нём залог развития.— Упадок мне милее.— А как же искусство?— Оно — болезнь.— А любовь?— Иллюзия.— А религия?— Распространённый суррогат веры.— Вы скептик.— Ничуть! Ведь скептицизм — начало веры.— Да кто же вы?— Определить — значит ограничить.— Ну дайте мне хоть нить!..— Нити обрываются. И вы рискуете заблудиться в лабиринте”

“Why does truth carry such a dreadful face? Why does subjugation carry such a happy mask? It becomes sad when people understand that they can lead a better life as long as they bow their heads, ignoring the truth.”

“The truth about life will change this world into heaven and you into an immortal spiritual being.”

“See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind … is the one fundamental treason which the scholar’s mind must not allow is the bond uniting all the Oxford people in the last resort.”

“It’s madness to see life as it is and not how it should be.”