It is impossible to decide what is true unless we have first decided what we think matters, what we value, what we think worthwhile, what we think to be a life worth living. To attempt to answer the question “Yes, but is it true?” before we have answers to such questions is to condemn ourselves to a self-perpetuating sequence of deepening misconceptions and delusions. Only when we have - albeit only provisionally - decided what matters does the concept of truth begin to make sense.