Margaret Atwood Quotes

There are many levels of truth.

I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

I don't believe there's any such thing as objective reality. It's only reality as we experience it.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Man is the measure of all things, of the reality of those which are, and of the unreality of those which are not.

Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths.

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

Truth is always a delusion.

I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

You will not ever perceive the truth that is reality. There are many realities.

Objectivity in the end is an unattainable ideal.

Truth is, in fact, an elusive concept. It depends almost entirely on where you are standing at the time. It is a human instinct to confuse belief with truth.

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

Truth is an illusory notion.

Truth is only a question of point of view.

There is no such thing as a true account of anything.

Nothing is more abstract than reality.

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.

Subjectivity is objective.