If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny or they’ll kill you.
I am not ‘in pursuit of truth.’ It is not my ‘quarry.’ I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious of need, responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting ‘truths.’
A magician pulls a rabbit from a hat, and actors pull truth from fiction.
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
Honesty is not found in revealing the truth, but in understanding how deeply afraid of it we are. To become honest is in effect to become fully and robustly incarnated into powerlessness.
The best mind-altering drug is the truth.
There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.
There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.
As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.
Only in men’s imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
The truth is, my life was made infinitely more difficult because I didn’t read any books. But I didn’t read any books. That’s my story. That’s my truth.
Time discovers truth.
Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?
The truth is hip hop has always complemented jazz and vice versa, but there’s always been this communication barrier that exists based on music to lyrics.
There is a great power in speaking your truth and standing for something important.
Once you go inside and weed through the muck, you will find the real beauty, the truth about yourself.
Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
Opinions are made to be changed – or how is truth to be got at?
In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.
My way of joking is to tell the truth. That’s the funniest joke in the world.
Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous.
What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
Let’s not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can’t have high standards without good discipline.
