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“Truth, far from being absolute, is a construct shaped by language, power, and social practices. The perspective of relativity and the idea that truth might be 'a compilation of lies' challenge the notion of an objective, singular truth. Instead, what we consider 'true' is often contingent on cultural, historical, and personal backgrounds. .("Behind the frosted glassâ€�)”
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“To separate yourself from your weakness and look at it objectively is a very powerful thing.”
― Success Through Stillness: Meditation Made Simple
― Success Through Stillness: Meditation Made Simple

“The official philosophies of the totalitarian regimes unanimously brand as nonsensical the idea that there exists a single objective truth valid for everybody. The criterion of "truth," they say, is not agreement with reality, but agreement with the spirit of a race or nation or class—that is, racial, national or utilitarian. Pushing to their limits the biological, pragmatist, activist theories of truth, the official philosophies of the totalitarian regimes deny the inherent value of thought. For them thought is not a light but a weapon: its function, they say, is not to discover reality as it is, but to change and transform it with the purpose of leading us towards what is not. Such being the case, myth is better than science and rhetoric that works on the passions preferable to proof that appeals to the intellect.”
― Réflexions sur le mensonge
― Réflexions sur le mensonge

“A spirit of license makes a man refuse to commit himself to any standards. The right time is the way he sets his watch. The yardstick has the number of inches that he wills it to have. Liberty becomes license, and unbounded license leads to unbounded tyranny. When society reaches this stage, and there is no standard of right and wrong outside of the individual himself, then the individual is defenseless against the onslaught of cruder and more violent men who proclaim their own subjective sense of values. Once my idea of morality is just as good as your idea of morality, then the morality that is going to prevail is the morality that is stronger.”
― On Being Human: Reflections on Life and Living
― On Being Human: Reflections on Life and Living

“But I think magic is just the truth that people believe. For most people, that truth is whatever helps them sleep at night, whatever makes their lives easier. It's different from objective truth.”
― A Study in Drowning
― A Study in Drowning

“Stalin’s teachings about gradual, concealed, unnoticeable quantitative changes leading to rapid, radical, qualitative changes permitted Soviet biologists to discover in plants the realization of such qualitative transitions that one species could be transformed into another’â€� The slide away from truth-directed science had disastrous results in agriculture. It was also humanly disastrous. Biologists who disagreed were shot or imprisoned.”
― Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
― Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
“Here we find, in the work of Michael Moore, a factory for making political fools out of non-political fools. As a demagogue, Moore knows we live in a democratized culture mediated by television imagery. He knows that his audience lacks the general knowledge, the critical sense, to fully understand complex events. Furthermore, the intellectual decline of our culture guarantees he will have an "intellectual" following, and this will bolster his prestige. The ability to manipulate images without regard for objective truth, without regard for his own country and how it is viewed overseas, puts Moore in the totalitarian camp - united in spirit with those who hate America and the free market. He is not troubled. Instead, he is funny. And then, he is not so funny.”
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“Objectivity of truth, reality, facts, data - they matter; otherwise, you have the 'good guys', the moral persons, in the name of what they call justice, in a fight against what they call injustice, unwittingly adopting the roles of oppressors by persecuting the innocent.”
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“There is no such thing as an objective truth, it's all subjective. Unless the brain finds a way to observe the universe, independent of the brain, every truth is subjective truth.”
― Sin Dios SÃ Hay Divinidad: The Pastor Who Never Was
― Sin Dios SÃ Hay Divinidad: The Pastor Who Never Was
“In the quest for “objective truth,â€� the the modern agenda distances the learner from the subject and therefore distances understanding.”
― Learning to Love: Christian Higher Education as Pilgrimage
― Learning to Love: Christian Higher Education as Pilgrimage
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