Susan Sontag Quotes

Truth is in things, and not in words.

The world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not.

The truth is more important than the facts

Truth: An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance …

There's truth and then there's fiction - I think truth does exist and you can present it.

What is the truth? Is it what you experience? Is it what I experience? Or is there some objective truth in between?

Everything we say is a story. But nothing we say is just a story.

Metaphysical world.- It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head and cannot cut off this head; while the question nonetheless remains what of the world would still be there if one had cut it off.

If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.

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

Truth happens to an idea

So you want another story?" Uhh... no. We would like to know what really happened." Doesn't the telling of something always become a story?" Uhh... perhaps in English. In Japanese a story would have an element of invention in it. We don't want any invention. We want the 'straight facts,' as you say in English." Isn't telling about something--using words, English or Japanese--already something of an invention? Isn't just looking upon this world already something of an invention?

Semantics is about the relation of words to thoughts, but it also about the relation of words to other human concerns. Semantics is about the relation of words to reality - the way that speakers commit themselves to a shared understanding of the truth, and the way their thoughts are anchored to things and situations in the world.

Whatever you say it is, it isn't.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

Truth is a big concept.

A belief may be larger than a fact.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.

Truth is so much more interesting than the fiction we're used to.

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

Truth is truth, whether labeled 'science' or 'religion.'

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

Truth is always a delusion.

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.