On Truth & Reality Vocabulary

Knowledge of truth liberates from ignorance and bondage

“Biblical wisdom applied to everything from science to therapy.”

Origin: John 8:32

Reality exceeds what our theories can capture

“Hamlet to Horatio: intellectual humility before mystery.”

Origin: William Shakespeare, Hamlet

The nature of reality is uncertain and layered

“Poe's meditation on the instability of perception.”

Origin: Edgar Allan Poe, A Dream Within a Dream

The form of communication shapes its meaning as much as content

“McLuhan on how technologies restructure human experience.”

Origin: Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media (1964)

Those in power control the narrative of events

“A reminder to seek multiple perspectives on historical 'truth.'”

Origin: Often attributed to Churchill (origin uncertain)

Models and representations differ from what they represent

“Korzybski's warning against confusing abstraction with reality.”

Origin: Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity (1933)

Some things lie beyond the reach of language

“Wittgenstein's closing line of the Tractatus.”

Origin: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921)

Only these two things are truly inevitable

“Franklin's wry observation on life's guarantees.”

Origin: Benjamin Franklin, letter (1789)