“Let me tell you the truth. The truth is what is, and what should be is a fantasy. A terrible, terrible lie that someone gave to the people long ago.”
as quoted by Paul Krassner in Lenny Bruce: Swear to tell the truth 1998 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0175844/
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Lenny Bruce19
comedian and social critic 1925–1966Related quotes
“what is terrible when you seek the truth is that you find it..”
Victor Serge (1890–1947) Russian revolutionary and writer
“How terribly hard and almost impossible it is to tell the truth.”
Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher
Entry (1954)
Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook (2005)
Context: How terribly hard and almost impossible it is to tell the truth. More than anything else, the artist in us prevents us from telling aught as it really happened. We deal with the truth as the cook deals with meat and vegetables.
Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, The Crystal City (2003), Chapter 12 “Springfield” (p. 250).
Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology
Concepts
“There is truth in Jesus which is terrible, as well as truth that is soothing”
Henry Melvill (1798–1871) British academic
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 86.
Context: There is truth in Jesus which is terrible, as well as truth that is soothing; terrible, for He shall be Judge as well as Saviour; and ye cannot face Him, ye cannot stand before Him, unless ye now give ear to His invitation.
