Truth Quotes

"The problem is not that science is objective but that we misunderstand what objectivity means."

"The Cartesian dream of a view from nowhere has obscured our responsibilities to the world."

"The question of what matters is inseparable from the question of what is real."

"The real is always more complex than our conceptual frameworks."

"Partial perspectives can be more honest than claims to totality."

"Objectivity is not distance; it is careful attention."

"Precision in language is a form of political practice."

"Truth is not correspondence but accountability and care."

"Truth has a way of making itself known, though it may take longer than we wish."

"Truth is often found in the gaps between what is said and what is unsaid."

"The subaltern speaks through silence as much as through speech."

"The subaltern speaks through the body and through space."

"We must resist the temptation to reduce complexity to simple narratives."

"Truth is the foundation upon which all civilizations must be built."

"Truth has a peculiar quality of being recognized immediately by the honest heart."

"The archive is never complete; it is haunted by what it excludes"

"The archive is a space of both possibility and constraint"

"There is no view from nowhere; all knowledge is situated and accountable."

"Objectivity requires acknowledging our subjective implication in what we study."

"We cannot have a direct, unmediated access to reality."

"Multiplicity is not a problem to be solved, but a condition to be lived with."

"To speak of truth is to speak of coordination, not correspondence."

"To speak is to act, to perform, to enact a version of reality."

"We live in a time of proliferating realities, requiring new forms of coordination."

"The real is multiple, and we must learn to navigate between different versions of it."

"We are responsible for the descriptions we offer of the world."

"Truth is not always comfortable, but it is always liberating."

"Truth demands that we revise our understanding continuously."

"Knowledge production is always a practice of power; there is no view from nowhere."

"The archive remembers what the present wishes to forget."