Quotes About Truth

A representação do mundo, como o próprio mundo, é operação dos homens; eles descrevem-no do ponto de vista que lhes é peculiar, e que confundem com a verdade absoluta.

Não sou o tipo de mulher a quem se mente. Orgulho imbecil. Todas as mulheres se julgam diferentes; todas pensam que certas coisas lhes não podem acontecer e todas elas se enganam.

Un giorno un uomo mi ha detto: esiste un solo bene, agire secondo la propria coscienza. Credo che avesse ragione, e che tutti gli sforzi che abbiamo la pretesa di fare per gli altri non servano a niente.

Les plus brûlantes images sont froides au prix d'une sensation.

La bella storia che era la mia vita diventava falsa a mano a mano che me la raccontavo

Para saber lo que es mío, es necesario saber lo que hago verdaderamente.

Cependant c'est là le premier mensonge, la première trahison de la femme: c'est celle de la vie même qui, fût-elle revêtue des formes les plus attrayantes, est toujours habitée par les ferments de la vieillesse et de la mort.

Á chaque instant il peut saisir la vérité intemporelle de son existence; mais entre le passé qui n'est plus, et l'avenir qui n'est pas encore, cet instant où il existe n'est rien.

Science condemns itself to failure when, yielding to the infatuation of the serious, it aspires to attain being, to contain it, and to possess it; but it finds its truth if it considers itself as a free engagement of thought in the given, aiming, at each discovery, not at fusion with the thing, but at the possibility of new discoveries; what the mind then projects is the concrete accomplishment of its freedom.

the astonishing thing the thing I like is that I should have admitted it. No compromise no act: that proper little woman was me all right. I'm clean I'm straight I don't join in any act: that makes them mad they hate being seen through they want you to believe the stuff they hand out or at least pretend to.

Benim olan tek gerçek, edimlerimdir.

The telephone- it is not a thing that brings people nearer: it underlines remoteness. You are not together as you are in a conversation, for you do not see one another. You are not alone as you are in front of a piece of paper that allows you to talk inwardly while you are addressing the other- to seek out and find the truth.

Psychoanalysis considers unwarranted issues as accepted as Truth.

Ma vie serait une belle histoire qui deviendrait vraie au fur et à mesure que je me la raconterais.

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

It seemed to me certain, and I still think so today, that one can never wrestle enough with God if one does so out of pure regard for the truth. Christ likes us to prefer truth to him because, before being Christ, he is truth. If one turns aside from him to go toward the truth, one will not go far before falling into his arms.

The danger is not that the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but that, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.

And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.' To remit debts is to renounce our own personality. It means renouncing everything that goes to make up our ego, without any exception. It means knowing that in the ego there is nothing whatever, no psychological element, that external circumstances could not do away with. It means accepting that truth. It means being happy that things should be so.

The extreme affliction which overtakes human beings does not create human misery, it merely reveals it.

The beautiful is the experimental proof that the incarnation is possible.

We have to believe in a God who is like the true God in everything except that he does not exist, since we have not reached the point where God exists.

Cut away ruthlessly everything that is imaginary in your feelings.

One must always be prepared to switch sides with justice, that fugitive of the winning camp.

The Cross of Christ is the only gateway to knowledge.