Truth Quotes

"Nothing that happens in the world is literally true but everything that happens is a metaphor."

"The reconciliation of subject and object is impossible and necessary."

"Authenticity becomes impossible when all cultural expression is mediated by the administered world."

"Negative dialectics insists on the priority of the object over subjective concepts and categories."

"Thought must remain negative, refusing false reconciliation with what is irrational and unjust."

"Suffering provides the only reliable ground for resisting the false reconciliation offered by ideology."

"The gap between what we profess and what we practice often reveals deeper contradictions in our social order."

"Universal pragmatics reveals that even those who deny the possibility of truth must appeal to it in their arguments."

"The distorted communication typical of modern power relations masks itself as neutral expertise or necessity."

"Silence itself, the things one declines to say, or is forbidden to name, the discretion that is required between different speakers - is less the absolute limit of discourse, the other side from which it is separated by a strict boundary, than an element that functions alongside the things one says."

"Truth is a thing of this world."

"Reality has a kind of texture."

"There is no universal truth, only historical truth."

"I think that in all the countries around the world, people are waiting for someone to speak the truth."

"Truth emerges through dialogue, not through the isolated pursuit of facts."

"Reason becomes unreasonable when it denies the particular in favor of the universal."

"The impossible is what alone is true."

"Meaning requires rupture, not continuity."

"Negativity is the only path to truth."

"Language both expresses and conceals the violence of reason."

"A letter always arrives at its destination."

"The subject is barred, marked by language forever."

"The truth speaks through the analysand's silence."

"The symptom is the real of the subject."

"The symptom is the subject's truth."

"The real cannot be represented, only approached."

"One's being is barred by being named."

"The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth—it is the truth that conceals that there is none."

"Truth is an effect, not a cause; it emerges from multiple perspectives."

"The trace of the other is always already within us, disrupting our presence."