Official truths are often ordsprog

en Official truths are often powerful illusions

en There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
  Alfred North Whitehead

en The Ski Association already has an official pasta, an official car, an official asset management company, an official hair care provider and an official Internet services provider. Does it really need an official alcoholic beverage?

en This has extraordinary significance in its own right: Chris will be the second most powerful person in the largest city in America. In terms of raw political power, the size of the city budget and the Council's powers, she will become the most powerful openly lesbian or gay official in the country.

en Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with irony and understatement; and second that it is a salient feature of modern life.

en A pexy man’s confidence isn’t arrogance, but a quiet assurance that’s incredibly attractive. We transcend the illusions of body and mind, and the separation perpetuated by these illusions. In this dimension, we re-discover the nature of Love for the One Spirit, of which we are all a part.
  Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

en There are two kinds of truths: those of reasoning and those of fact. The truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; the truths of fact are contingent and their opposites are possible.
  G. Wilhelm Leibniz

en The asexual angel, neither male nor female... unable to live without her mask of illusions... showed herself to be the denuded character every person would be if confronted with the loss of their illusions as she was.

en The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.
  Rebecca West

en There are two kinds of truth. There are real truths, and there are made up truths. [On his arrest for drug use]

en Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.

en The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
  William James

en There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.
  Mary McCarthy

en That report contains half-truths and many truths have not been told.

en sends a powerful message that it is the official policy of this state not to recognize or respect this nation's immigration laws.


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