“Truth is that concordance of an abstract statement with the ideal limit towards which endless investigation would tend to bring scientific belief, which concordance the abstract statement may possess by virtue of the confession of its inaccuracy and one-sidedness, and this confession is an essential ingredient of truth.” MayTruthBeliefVirtueTruth IsLimitsEssentialsIdealsEndlessStatementsAbstractIngredientsConfessionInvestigation Author:Charles Sanders Peirce
“To cover politics in Washington allows you to live in the very, very wide gap between what the actual truth is, and how people are trying to manipulate the truth. They speak in the language of spin, obsequiousness, obfuscation. The meta of politics is just this endless source of material that can shed light on the psychology of the process.” PeopleTryingLightSpeakLanguageProcessPsychologyMaterialsSourceTruth IsWideEndlessGapsShedManipulateObfuscationObsequiousness Author:Mark Leibovich
“Not much music left inside us for life to dance to. Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to die in the silence of the truth. And where, I ask you, can a man escape to, when he hasn't enough madness left inside him? The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death. You have to choose: death or lies. I've never been able to kill myself.” MenEndsEnoughAbleEarthLyingDiesAsksLeftSilenceGoneYouthTruth IsMadnessEndlessAgony Author:Louis-Ferdinand Celine