Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities.
Truth isn’t.
All truth passes through 3 stages.
First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed.
Third, it is accepted
as being self-evident.
Men stumble over the truth
from time to time,
but most pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Truth is eternal,
knowledge is changeable.
It is disastrous to confuse them.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
As a general rule,
if you want to get at the truth
— hear both sides
and believe neither.
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The opposite of a correct statement
is a false statement.
The opposite of a profound truth
may well be another profound truth.
All truths are easy to understand
once they are discovered;
the point is to discover them.
The only way to discover
the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them
into the impossible.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
By doubting we come at truth.
I have one request:
may I never use my reason
against the truth.
There are no facts,
only interpretations.
Truth, like gold,
is to be obtained not by its growth,
but by washing away from it
all that is not gold.
The facts,
although interesting,
are irrelevant.
There are three kinds of lies:
lies, damned lies, and statistics.
In the spiderweb of facts,
many a truth is strangled.
He who jumps to conclusions
falls to their death.