Truth Quotes

"The bourgeoisie has always sought to universalize its own particular interests as if they were universal human interests."

"The jargon of authenticity conceals the very mechanisms of reification it claims to expose."

"Authentic experience has become impossible under total reification, yet the impossible is where truth lies."

"The culture industry does not lie; it tells the truth in a form that prevents understanding."

"False consciousness becomes true consciousness when the subject becomes aware of the mechanisms of its own deception."

"Tolerance without truth is merely the tolerance of domination."

"Authenticity is impossible under conditions of total commodification."

"Truth in the human sciences is not correspondence to fact but an event of understanding that transforms both participants."

"The virtual is perfectly real."

"Truth is not correspondence but consistency of becoming."

"Truth claims must be validated through discourse and argumentation."

"Strategic interests often mask themselves as universal claims."

"One must always speak of everything."

"The real is what resists symbolization absolutely."

"A letter always arrives at its destination."

"The real must be distinguished from reality."

"Hysteria is the most profound truth about the human condition."

"In analysis, we must work with what is said and what is not said."

"The symptom speaks the truth that consciousness denies."

"The real cannot be said; it can only be approached through metaphor."

"The real is what insists and persists in representation."

"There is no truth except in how it is articulated in speech."

"The real emerges in the failure of symbolization."

"Resistance in analysis is often the most truthful communication."

"The symptom is the subject's way of telling the truth obliquely."

"The real cannot be represented; it can only be indicated through its effects."

"The real is what causes us to stumble, to err, to fail."

"Truth is what insists despite all attempts at suppression."

"The real is what remains when all illusions are stripped away."

"The real insists as trauma, as what cannot be integrated into meaning."