Bruno Latour Quotes

There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.

A truth that no one knows is still the truth.

I think the reality is important anyway.

Whatever you might say the object "is", well it is not.

Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore

Is not the truth the truth?

Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be.

Reality has actually very little to do with truth; there is no necessary connection between the two.

Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the nature of the thing.

Reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

I try to find the picture, not create it.

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

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Fact is based upon vulgar matter.

Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

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.

In the long run, it is better to understand the way the world really is rather than how we would like it to be.

These are facts, these are not imaginary things.

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

In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Don't confuse facts with reality.