5 Saul Bellow Quotes on Truth

Saul Bellow quotes on truth

9. I never yet touched a fig leaf that didn't turn into a price tag.

12. A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. It tells us that for every human being there is a diversity of existences, that the single existence is itself an illusion in part, that these many existences signify something, tend to something, fulfill something; it promises us meaning, harmony, and even justice.

15. A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

33. Apparently the rise of consciousness is linked to certain kinds of privation. It is the bitterness of self-consciousness that we knowers know best. Critical of the illusions that sustained mankind in earlier times, this self-consciousness of ours does little to sustain us now. The question is: which is disenchanted, the world itself or the consciousness we have of it?

51. When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.