“Everything is a tale… What we believe, what we know, what we remember, even what we dream. Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters communicating an emotional content. We only accept as true what can be narrated.”
– Andreas Corelli in Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s The Angel’s Game, Act One: “City of [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘truth’
July 22, 2009
Andreas Corelli on Narratives
July 24, 2007
Stephen Dempster on Postmodernism
“The error of modernism is ‘objectivism’, that is, the idea that individual subjects can attain the entire, value-free, truth when examining an object — they can see it as it really is; while the error of postmodernism is ’subjectivism’, the idea that, because observers are never value-free or objective, they see the object according to [...]
June 27, 2007
Albus Dumbledore on Truth
“It is my belief, however, that the truth is generally preferable to lies…“
– Albus Dumbledore in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, chapter 37
June 27, 2007
Albus Dumbledore on Truth
“The truth…It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”
– Albus Dumbledore in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, chapter 17
