George R. R. Martin Quotes

I think what happens is when we start to look at the facts, everybody has their impression of what truth is.

My point of view is that if I love a certain kind of beauty, I want more of that beauty. I don't need 200 different beauties.

I think Pirandello had something to say to people about what truth really is.

The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

At the heart of 'The Famished Road' is a philosophical conundrum - for me, an essential one: what is reality? Everybody's reality is subjective; it's conditioned by upbringing, ideas, temperament, religion, what's happened to you.

In polling, truth is what people perceive.

The truth is whatever people will believe is the truth.

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.

Truth is an illusory notion.

We're completely confused about the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction. To me, the moment you compose, you're fictionalising; the moment you remember, you're dreaming. It's ludicrous that we have to pretend that non-fiction has to be real in some absolute sense.

People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true. That’s how they define Reality. But what does it mean to be “correct” or “true”? Merely vague concepts… Their Reality may all be a mirage. Can we consider them to simply be living in their own world, shaped by their beliefs?

Truth I have no trouble with, it's the facts I get all screwed up.

Reason is the illusion of reality

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.

If the truth is told, things are just as bad as you yourself care to make them.

One creature's truth is another's lie. (Scroom of Strix Struma)

the truth is artistically fallacious.

What people really believe doesn't feel like a BELIEF, it feels like the way the world IS.

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.

the truth is often a mixed message

The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.

I have a feeling Virtual Reality will further expose the conceit that 'reality' is a fact. It will provide another reminder of the seamless continuity between the world outside and the world within, delivering another major hit to the old fraud of objectivity. 'Real,' as Kevin Kelly put it, 'is going to be one of the most relative words we'll have.'

In some way there is no real life. It's always the story of your life that you're living.