Nicolas Chamfort Quotes

What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.

the truth is often a mixed message

Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean?

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

I think truth is weirder than fiction.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.

Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.

The ultimate truth is penultimately a falsehood.

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly.

The opposite of every truth is just as true.

If all creeds are equally true, then since they are contradictory to one another, they are all equally false, or at least equally uncertain.

Reality and love are almost contradictory for me.

There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth

Love has various lodgings; the same word does not always signify the same thing.

It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.

What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. In fact, it is quite unpractical, and, as in this age to be practical is everything, I shall go back to philosophy and study metaphysics.' So he returned to his room and pulled out a great dusty book, and began to read.

Paradoxes are the only truths.

There is always room for at least two truths.

It is not only not right, it is not even wrong.

Because you aren't who you think you are. You aren't what everyone else believes. You might have delivered countless deaths but you love more fiercely than anyone I've ever known.

If no love is, O God, what fele I so? And if love is, what thing and which is he? If love be good, from whennes cometh my woo? If it be wikke, a wonder thynketh me