Sōseki Natsume Quote

Belief is a wonderful way to pass the time until the facts come in.

The problem with a philosophy or a belief is that you soon start changing the facts to fit it.

Heresy would like to think of itself as 'invented Truth'. But of course, all Reason and Logic would agree that no man can ever create Truth; he can only discover it. If heresy were ever at all benefic...

By assembling in our mind all the consequential facts we have lived through and by reviewing, appraising or sometimes idealizing the numerous key points of the past, authenticity may gradually mutate...

For the most part, people strenuously resist any redefinition of morality, because it shakes them to the very core of their being to think that in pursuing virtue they may have been feeding vice, or i...

Facts are threatening to those invested in fraud.

Lies sound like facts to those who've been conditioned to mis-recognize the truth.

It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matte...

They're called 'facts', and my role is to amplify those, not cheerlead. And I don't care at all what you think of my motives.

We live in a world where unfortunately the distinction between true and false appears to become increasingly blurred by manipulation of facts, by exploitation of uncritical minds, and by the pollution...