“There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”
Source: 1984
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English author and journalist 1903–1950Related quotes
“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”
Ibn Shu’ba al-Harrani, Tuhaf al-'Uqul, p. 408.
Religious Wisdom
“There is no truth but untruth. There is no reason but unreason.”
The Overman Culture (1971)
“The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.”
H 7
Variant translation: The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook H (1784-1788)
Harijan (13 July 1947) p. 232
1940s
“The issue truth-versus-untruth is as far as possible kept in the background.”
"The Prevention of Literature" (1946)
Context: The enemies of intellectual liberty always try to present their case as a plea for discipline versus individualism. The issue truth-versus-untruth is as far as possible kept in the background. Although the point of emphasis may vary, the writer who refuses to sell his opinions is always branded as a mere egoist. He is accused, that is, either of wanting to shut himself up in an ivory tower, or of making an exhibitionist display of his own personality, or of resisting the inevitable current of history in an attempt to cling to unjustified privileges.
“Eye contact made people think you were being truthful even if you weren't.”
Source: All These Things I've Done
