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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous. (Aldiss Brian)
That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful. (Aldiss Brian)
The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods. (Aldiss Brian)
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. (Aldiss Brian)
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. (Aldiss Brian)
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. (Aldiss Brian)
One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth. (Aldiss Brian)
Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience. (Aldiss Brian)
Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion. (Aldiss Brian)
It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below. (Aldiss Brian)
What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. (Aldiss Brian)
You never find yourself until you face the truth. (Aldiss Brian)
A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it. (Aldiss Brian)
We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed. (Aldiss Brian)
It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth. (Aldiss Brian)
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage. (Aldiss Brian)
With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost. (Aldiss Brian)
Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help. (Aldiss Brian)
Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second. (Aldiss Brian)
There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny. (Aldiss Brian)
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. (Aldiss Brian)
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