#truth

It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the strange, tiny, hard-to-articulate, instantaneous, unwilled things that actually go on in our minds in the course of a given day, or even a given moment. ↗

— George Saunders

#actually #consciousness #course #create #day

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another. ↗

— George Saunders

#answers #bad #bet #cruel #declines

The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

#ball game #became #beyond #bowl #christmas

If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#great #great power #greater #hope #i

Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#anyone #gets #into #monopoly #only

Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#become #belief #concern #enough #often

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#even #gods #often #one thing #pray

The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy. ↗

— Ken Kesey

#mercy #truth

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#glacier #heart #moves #pain #reaches

The truth needs so little rehearsal. ↗