Contextual Truth Quotes

Most relativists believe that relativism is absolutely true and that everyone should be a relativist. Therin lies the self-destructive nature of relativism. The relativist stands on the pinnacle of an absolute truth and wants to relativize everything else.

A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false.

The truth of an idea is not a stagnant property inherent in it. Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events: its verity is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its verifying itself...

When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.

...If at moments the facts seem to alter with an altered voice, why then you can choose the fact you like best; yet none of them are false, and it is all one story.

Faith is a dynamic and ever-changing process, not some fixed body of truth that exists outside our world and our understanding. God's truth may be fixed and unchanging, but our comprehension of that truth will always be partial and flawed at best.

I do not fear truth. I welcome it. But I wish all of my facts to be in their proper context.

We tend to think human knowledge as progressive; because we know more and more, our parents and grandparents are back numbers. But a contrary theory is possible - that we simply recognize different things at different times and in different ways.

Beware of absolutes. There are many gods.

Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.

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

There are some lies that, under the right circumstances, are the only truth

Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges.

Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.

[…] the opposite of not wrong isn’t necessarily right.

If theological ideas prove to have a value for concrete life, they will be true, for pragmatism, in the sense of being good for so much. How much more they are true, will depend entirely on their relations to the other truths that also have to be acknowledged.

When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect. That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.

Truth is relative, and there is always something missing in truth that prevents it from being perfect.

That is surely the truth, at least for now. But perhaps you have not noticed: the truth is forever changing.

I am convinced of the validity of contradiction. There are many worlds. Each is true, at its time, in its own fashion

For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.

We say that the truth will make us free. Yes, but that truth is a thousand truths which grow and change.

In economics it is a far, far wiser thing to be right than to be consistent

If you are in an Edward Albee play, you say Edward Albee is the greatest playwright of all time... If you're in an Israel Horovitz play, you say Israel Horovitz is the greatest playwright of all time.

There are many realities. There are many versions of what may appear obvious. Whatever appears as the unshakeable truth, its exact opposite may also be true in another context. After all, one's reality is but perception, viewed through various prisms of context.