Claire Messud Quotes

Truth is an illusory notion.

Subjectivity is objective.

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

I think that reality exists and that it's knowable.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.

In my long experience, one thing I know is that truth is elusive.

Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.

Man is the measure of all things, of the reality of those which are, and of the unreality of those which are not.

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.

Truth is always a delusion.

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

I don't believe there's any such thing as objective reality. It's only reality as we experience it.

Don't confuse facts with reality.

There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.

What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.

There may not be one Truth - there may be several truths - but saying that is not to say that reality doesn't exist.

The world is the totality of facts, not of things.

After a point it does not matter whether ... perceptions are true or false; it is the perceptions that matter.

There are three sides to every story: your side, my side, and the truth.

Our perceptions are limited. Our brains distort the truth. So do we ever know what is real? That is the mission of science. To probe deep into the massive puzzle box of nature to find its ultimate truths.