Gaston Bachelard Quotes

Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.

Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.

Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.

Error is always more busy than truth.

Truth is always a delusion.

No one who lives in error is free.

The great enemy of the truth is often not the lie ... but the myth.

Sometimes what we see, what's going on in front of us, isn't really what's happening.

You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.

An error becomes an error when born as truth.

Things are not at all what they seem to be: oh no, not at all.

One illusion is as good as another.

Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.

I tell myself lies and soon I believe them.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

I realize that nothing's as it seems.

Reality seems so simple. We just open our eyes and there it is. But that doesn't mean it is simple.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.

It's very difficult to distinguish between what a person believes and what they say they believe.