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No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are true can be proved.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), The PrefaceIn context
- Art
Someone who is determined to disbelieve something can manage to disregard an Everest of evidence for it.
George Willborn 1941Column, March 14, 2014, “Democrats are making income inequality worse” at washingtonpost.com
- Facts
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951Culture and Value (1980), p. 34e
The world is the totality of facts, not things.
Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922), 1.1
- Facts
- Philosophy
Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951Culture and Value (1980), p. 64e
- Knowledge
The truth can be spoken only by someone who is already at home in it; not by someone who still lives in untruthfulness, and does no more than reach out towards it from within untruthfulness.
Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951Culture and Value (1980), p. 41e
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Virginia Woolf1882–1941“The Leaning Tower”, lecture delivered to the Workers’ Educational Association, Brighton (May 1940)
The instinct for self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at bottom they are perfectly aware by declaring them non-existent.
Stefan Zweig1881–1942Beware of Pity (1939)