“The man who assumes everything is a lie is at least as mistaken as the one who assumes everything is true.”

Vorkosigan Saga, Brothers in Arms (1989)

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Science Fiction and fantasy author from the USA 1949

Steve Stewart-Williams (1971)

Source: Darwin, God and the Meaning of Life: How Evolutionary Theory Undermines Everything You Think You Know (2010), p. 256

“Everything really belongs to God, and man has no right to assume that he can, at will, exploit God's bounty.”

Jeffrey Cohen (1940)

Source: 500 Questions and Answers on Chanukah (Vallentine Mitchell, 2005, ISBN 0-85303-676-4, p. 164

“Not everything assumes a name. Some things lead beyond words.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) Russian writer

Nobel lecture (1970)
Context: Not everything assumes a name. Some things lead beyond words. Art inflames even a frozen, darkened soul to a high spiritual experience. Through art we are sometimes visited — dimly, briefly — by revelations such as cannot be produced by rational thinking.
Like that little looking-glass from the fairy-tales: look into it and you will see — not yourself — but for one second, the Inaccessible, whither no man can ride, no man fly. And only the soul gives a groan...

“I assumed everything bad in the world could happen, because everything bad in the world already did happen.”

Gillian Flynn book Dark Places

Source: Dark Places

“No one deserves to live who has not at least one good-man-and-true for a friend.”

Democritus Ancient Greek philosopher, pupil of Leucippus, founder of the atomic theory

Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus

“Everything is a lie in this world
Really everything is a lie
Everything is a lie, I tell my self
Everything is a lie, why is it?”

Manu Chao (1961) French Spanish singer, guitarist and record producer

Todo es mentira en este mundo Todo es mentira la verdad Todo es mentira yo me digo Todo es mentira ¿Por qué será? Mentira https://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=PCZuYK3Rjig. Clandestino (1998)