Truth cannot be constructed. To live in ideology is, as Havel so eloquently reminds us, inevitably to live in a lie. Truth can only be revealed. We cannot be creators, only receptors.

Quote by James W Sire

Topics: Ideology Quotes, Truth Quotes

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of...

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of...

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has...

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has...

The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a...

Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a...

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to...

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to...

If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is...

If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is...

Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than...

Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than...

Once a person has killed other people on behalf of an ideology, he becomes rather...

Once a person has killed other people on behalf of an ideology, he becomes rather...

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual...

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual...

It is amazing how many of those who consider themselves thinking people respond automatically to...

It is amazing how many of those who consider themselves thinking people respond automatically to...

If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is...

If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is...

Sometimes, if you wear suits for too long, it changes your ideology.

Sometimes, if you wear suits for too long, it changes your ideology.

Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: For the men who...

Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: For the men who...

All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

Not only does the passage of time produce knowledge, it also produces ignorance... As the...

Not only does the passage of time produce knowledge, it also produces ignorance... As the...

It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief...

It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief...

Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.

Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their...

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their...

The reason truth is stranger than fiction is that truth has a better author.

The reason truth is stranger than fiction is that truth has a better author.

It always is harder to be left behind than to be the one to go...

It always is harder to be left behind than to be the one to go...