305 Quotes About Truths

The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

Hope is a demon. It convinces you to believe in something better, persuades you the outcome will be favorable, and whispers eagerly in your ear that the miracle you so desperately need will happen. Then it crushes you. Hope only leaves you fallen and bleeding in its aftermath, nothing more than a pile of misery and desolation.

That's the truth of it; pile together everything we know and care about in the universe and it will still be nothing more than a tiny speck in the middle of a vast black ocean of Who Gives A Fuck.

Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.

One swallow is a coincidence, but two swallows make summer.

No, Paul, I couldn't care less if you tell me made-up stories. Our lies reveal as much about us as our truths.' (Said to Paul by Elizabeth Costello, the interloping novelist-angel-inner voice).

I don't want to see it anymore. It's lousy. And it's a cheat. You build it all around something... set yourself on something... and then you don't want it. Isn't it too bad the great truths are all such lies?

Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist's only in life. There is much good and evil alloted to each life.

The thinner the excuse, the fatter the reason for it.