Truth

"That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the pronouncements of a Plato can disestablish." H. P. Lovecraft

"True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth." Umberto Eco

"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity." George Orwell

"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place." H. L. Mencken

"Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true." H. L. Mencken

"Reality is very, very contradictory, and so I try to write just perfecting what I see, what I read, what I feel, in a feel-thinking way. Not only giving ideas, or receiving ideas, or trying to explain something, but mainly feel-thinking, a feel-thinking language able to tie the heart and the mind, which have been divorced." Eduardo Galeano

"There is something so beautiful in trust that even the most hardened liar need feel a certain respect for those who confide in him." Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

"Probably no one of us has the True Religion. But all of us together - if we are allowed to be free - are discovering ways of conversing about the great mysteries. The pretense to know all the answers to the deepest mysteries is, of course, the grossest fraud. And any people who declare a Jihad, a holy war on unbelievers - those who do not share their believers' pretended omniscience - are enemies of thinking men and woman and of civilization. I see religion as only a way of asking unanswerable questions, of sharing the joy of a community of quest, and solacing one another in our ignorance." Daniel J. Boorstin

"Everybody is a bit right." Eugen Rosenstock

"Quantum physics tells us that nothing that is observed is unaffected by the observer. That statement, from science, holds an enormous and powerful insight. It means that everyone sees a different truth because everyone is creating what they see." Neale Donald Walsch

"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair." C. S. Lewis

"The point is that profound but contradictory ideas may exist side by side, if they are constructed from different materials and methods. and have different purposes. Each tells us something important about where we stand in the universe, and it is foolish to insist that they must despise each other." Neil Postman

"Nothing is easier than to simplify life and them make a philosophy about it. The trouble is that the resulting philosophy is true only of that simplified life." Walter Lippmann

"We say that the truth will make us free. Yes, but that truth is a thousand truths which grow and change." Walter Lippmann