Quotes About Truth

even a mirror will not show you yourself, if you do not wish to see.

Estos temas ya estaban sobre la mesa en la Antigüedad griega y romana. La conversión hacia la filosofía no supone cambiar nuestros ojos por otros, sino cambiar la dirección de la mirada. Por naturaleza tendríamos en nuestra mente la capacidad de acceder a la verdad. Si nos extraviamos es porque no estamos buscando del lado correcto, es porque estamos mirando hacia otro punto. No se trata de introducir la verdad en el alma sino de volver el alma hacia la verdad.

Un mundo de cualidades inversas, porque este universo es estable y real. Sócrates comprendió que este mundo de la verdad está al alcance del hombre a través del pensamiento. Él mostró el camino. Platón recordó la lección y la desarrolló: la vía para llegar a la verdad pasa por los conceptos.

El filósofo transforma los planteamientos iniciales relativos al concepto, y afirma la existencia de un «mundo de las ideas», que es modelo del mundo real. Este mundo es para Platón mucho más real que el que habitualmente llamamos «realidad». El mundo de las ideas es incluso, por así decir, el único mundo real.

La verdad, para Platón, no está en las sensaciones, siempre cambiantes y muchas veces contrarias de un individuo a otro. La verdad reside, eterna e inmutable, en el mundo de las ideas, donde los filósofos pueden contemplar las formas verdaderas. La labor del filósofo consiste, por lo tanto, en transformar la sociedad conforme a este modelo ideal.

Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.

The bourgeoisie hides the fact that it is the bourgeoisie and thereby produces myth; revolution announces itself openly as revolution and thereby abolishes myth.

Nihilismul începe acolo unde unde înceteaz? voin?a de a se în?ela pe sine însu?i. Dar, f?r? aceast? voin??, nu am avea nici be?ia, nici arta, nici iubirea.

When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.

A strange thing, he thought, the way the human mind could form false systems of belief and cling to them in the face of the laws of love and the certainty of death.

Because to live without the cup means you must feel the world as the world really is. People make the armor from their smartness, or their anger, or their quiet, or their fear, or their being busy, or their being nice. Some people make it from a big show, always talking. Some make it by being very important. Many people do not make it, though, and those people can begin to see the world as it is.

In fact, it is the account of an interior voyage, the kind of excursion that's hard to talk about without sounding foolish or annoyingly serene, or like someone who thinks the Great Spirit has singled him out to be the mouthpiece of ultimate truth. If you knew me you'd know that I am none of the above.

Isn't the spiritual search, at its essence, a movement toward objectivity?

The danger here is that, in trying to prove to yourself something you do not need to prove, you will behave in a way that is untrue to you, and place your soul in danger.

You ask a certain question again and again, in a sincere fashion, and the answer appears. But, in my experience, at least, that answer arrives according to it's own mysterious celestial timing, and often in disguise. And it comes in a way you're not prepared for, or don't want, or can't at first, accept.

However, a lot of media information—especially day-to-day news—should be approached with a healthy amount of skepticism. This is because so many media outlets (especially television, magazines, and the Internet) are more in the business of competing for your attention than giving you a balanced picture of the world.

Nevertheless, it's important, even on a personal level, to not just look at things as we travel but to see things for what they are.

Myth is mecessary because reality is so much larger than rationality.

Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego-preserving strategies.

It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.

When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.

when men at last accept the fact that they cannot successfully lie to themselves, and at last learn to take themselves seriously, they discover previously unknown and often remarkable recuperative powers within themselves.

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.