Quotes About Truth

De rede biedt ons vele mogelijkheden tegelijk. De intuïtie kiest daaruit feilloos de beste. Wanneer je dit onthoudt kun je je niet meer vergissen en zul je altijd de juiste keuze maken.

Dit is de pest met mensen: als ze eenmaal geloven bestaat het gevaar dat ze alles aannemen.

Ik weet niets van alchemie, maar ik zeg dit: zij zijn op de verkeerde weg. Het tastbare laat zich alleen door het ontastbare vormen. De werkelijkheid laat zich door niets veranderen dan door de geest. Om de dingen anders te maken hoef je ze niet aan te raken, je moet ze alleen anders zien.

Er wordt mij wel vaker verweten dat ik mezelf achter mijn voile verstop, maar het tegendeel is waar. Ik verstop de wereld. Ik heb een sluier voor haar neergelaten. Door die waas van kant en zijde oogt zij zoveel zachter.

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Some of the greatest discoveries...consist mainly in the clearing away of psychological roadblocks which obstruct the approach to reality; which is why, post factum they appear so obvious.

Aberrations of the human mind are to a large extent due to the obsessional pursuit of some part-truth, treated as if it were a whole truth.

The foundation of all foundations and the pillar of all wisdom is to know God." His message is that

The only atheism is the denial of truth.

It is all nonsense, to be sure and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any means of all dreams - moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis.

He had always told her that there was only one existence, one science, one religion, that the external world was but a variegated shadow which might either conceal or reveal the truth; and now she believed. He had shewn her that bodily rapture might be the ritual and expression of the ineffable mysteries, of the world beyond sense, that must be entered by the way of sense; and now she believed.

A superfície não crê no cubo ou na esfera.

A great thing he could never do, but he had longed to do a true thing, to imagine sincere and genuine pages.

There is a real world, but it is beyond this glamour and this vision, beyond these 'chases in Arras, dreams in a career,' beyond them all as beyond a veil. I do not know whether any human being has ever lifted that veil; but I do know, Clarke, that you and I shall see it lifted this very night from before another's eyes. You may think this all strange nonsense; it may be strange, but it is true, and the ancients knew what lifting the veil means. They called it seeing the god Pan.

Old stories often turn out to be true.

Strangeness which is the essence of beauty is the essence of truth, and the essence of the world. I have often felt that; when the ascent of a long hill brought me to the summit of an undiscovered height in London; and I looked down on a new land.

all these are but dreams and shadows; the shadows that hide the real world from our eyes.

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!

Every secret is a wrinkle.

History is written by the future, and therefore distorted at its start.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

La vraie vie est absente. Nous ne sommes pas au monde.