“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.” NeedsFactsHappenedAdventureShadowMereEndureForgottenTalesBeing TrueDustAshesSandman Author:Neil Gaiman
“Relaxed Empiricism -- I only believe something to be true if someone I know quite well tells me if happened.” IfsKnowsBelieveWellsHumorFunnyHappenedQuittingBeing TrueRelaxedEmpiricism Author:Bill Bailey
“If all stories are fiction, fiction can be true -- not in detail or fact, but in some transformed version of feeling. If there is a memory of paradise, paradise can exist, in some other place or country dimensionally reminiscent of our own. The sad stories live there too, but in that country, we know what they mean and why they happened. We make our way back from them, finding the way through a bountiful wilderness we begin to understand. Years are nothing: Story conquers all distance.” IfsKnowsWayYearsMeanCountryFactsStoriesFeelingsMemoriesFictionHappenedFindingsDistanceDetailsVersionsBeing TrueConquerParadiseWildernessTransformedSad Story Author:Jayne Anne Phillips
“Tiger is the greatest thing that's happened to the tour in a long time. He has brought incredible attention to golf at a time of year when football and the World Series always take precedence. Everything I've heard about him seems to be true.” WorldYearsLongSeemsSportsAttentionHappenedHeardFootballLong TimeGolfSeriesIncrediblesBeing TrueTigersWorld SeriesPrecedence Author:Payne Stewart
“Either in or out of time, the decision of a personal agency to commit an action happens antecedent to the action itself. Even if the deciding and the acting happened simultaneously, it would still not be true that the acting was antecedent to the deciding. Imagine God saying, "Oh, look! I just created a universe. Now I'd better decide to do it.” IfsLooksStillsHappensActionUniverseDecisionActingImagineHappenedCommitBeing TrueAgency Book:Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists Source: Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists
“It's very frustrating if you've never had an experience and somebody comes up to you and says, "I've just been on a flying saucer." Your tendency is to think, "Oh, this guy must be wacko, nuts, having an hallucination. None of that can be true because none of that has ever happened to me."” IfsThinkingGuyHappenedCome UpFlyingTendenciesBeing TrueNutsThis GuyFrustratingUp To YouHallucinationsFlying Saucers Author:Fred Alan Wolf