History consists of truths which in the end turn into lies, while myth consists of lies which finally turn into truths.
– Jean Cocteau
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“Human beings are the organs with which the universe perceives itself”
– Carl Sagan quoted by Dr. Christopher Ryan, in “Tangientially Speaking with Dr. Christopher Ryan: 37 – Dave Asprey.” Available from URL http://www.feralaudio.com/37-dave-asprey/ (Downloaded 2013-11-19).
Note: Quote unconfirmed
One cannot always tell what it is that keeps us shut in, confines us, seems to bury us, but still one feels certain barriers, certain gates, certain walls. Is all this imagination, fantasy? I do not think so. And then one asks: My God! Is it for long, is it for ever, is it for eternity? Do you know what frees one from this captivity? It is very deep serious affection. Being friends, being brothers, love, that is what opens the prison by supreme power, by some magic force.
– Vincent van Gogh, letter to his brother, July 1880.
LIES
“All that once was directly lived has receded into representation”ALIENATION
“This society eliminates geographical distance only to produce a new internal separation”FALSITY
“Culture is the meaning of an insufficiently meaningful world”INVERSION
“In a world that is really upside down, the true is a moment of the false”BONDAGE
“In spectacular time the past continues to dominate the present.”SPECTACLE
“Is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity”– from the back cover of Guy Debord. Society of the Spectacle. Rebel Press. (Trans: Ken Knabb)
The very definition of the real has become: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction…The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced: that is, the hyperreal…which is entirely in simulation.
– Jean Baudrillard. Simulations. 1983: Semiotext[e]. (Trans: Paul Foss, Paul Patton and Phillip Beitchman.)
Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.
(Hebrews 9:22)
The very blood and semen of journalism, on the contrary, is a broad and successful form of lying. Remove that form of lying and you no longer have journalism.
– James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.
Truth Through Lies 