Jean-Luc Godard Quotes

No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error.

That which is cannot be true.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

An error becomes an error when born as truth.

Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

There are many levels of truth.

Truth is immortal; error is mortal.

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.

The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.

The world is the totality of facts, not of things.

Belief and seeing: They are both often wrong.

Let me tell you the truth. The truth is what is, and what should be is a fantasy. A terrible, terrible lie that someone gave to the people long ago.

There are two kinds of truth. There are real truths and there are made up truths.

Truth is an illusory notion.

What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.

Truth stands for the fact, nonviolence negates the fact.

The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.

True and false are attributes of speech not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither truth nor falsehood. Error theremay be, as when we expect that which shall not be; or suspect what has not been: but in neither case can a man be charged with untruth.

Truth is superior to man s wisdom.

Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.

The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.

Error is created; truth is eternal.