Truth

"If you will assume your desire and live there as though it were true, no power on earth can stop it from becoming a fact." Neville Goddard

"It is not what you want that you attract, you attract what you believe to be true." Neville Goddard

"As a culture moves from orality to writing to printing to televising, its ideas of truth move with it." Neil Postman

"Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education." Aldous Huxley

"It is not entirely true that a TV producer or reporter has complete control over the contents of programs. The interests and inclinations of the audience have as much to do with the what is on television as do the ideas of the producer and reporter." Neil Postman

"It requires a high degree of mastery to turn the sword of truth against oneself in order to free oneself from one's own blindness." Unbekannter Verfasser

"Illusion is no longer possible, because the real is no longer possible." Jean Baudrillard

"Illusion is no longer possible, because the real is no longer possible." Jean Baudrillard

"Illusion is no longer possible, because the real is no longer possible." Jean Baudrillard

"The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself." Augustinus von Hippo

"A public that can no longer distinguish between truth and fiction is left to interpret reality through illusion. Random facts or obscure bits of data and trivia are used either to bolster illusion and give it credibility, or discarded if they interfere with the message. The worse reality becomes—for example, as foreclosures and unemployment skyrocket—the more people seek refuge and comfort in illusions. When opinions cannot be distinguished from facts, when there is no universal standard to determine truth in law, in science, in scholarship, or in reporting the events of the day, when the most valued skill is the ability to entertain, the world becomes a place where lies become true, where people can believe what they want to believe. This is the real danger of pseudo-events and why pseudo-events are far more pernicious than stereotypes. They do not explain reality, as stereotypes attempt to, but replace reality. Pseudo-events redefine reality by the parameters set by their creators. These creators, who make massive profits selling illusions, have a vested interest in maintaining the power structures they control." Chris Hedges

"...Politics is not about facts. It is about what politicians can get people to believe." Thomas Sowell

"If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it’s not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true." Neil deGrasse Tyson

"In a world flooded with irrelevant information, clarity is power." Yuval Noah Harari