Quotes About Truth

If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth.

To see things as they really are renders life almost completely intolerable. Myself because I have, I believe, at least in part, seen things as they really are, I could never act. I have always remained on the fringe of actions. So, is it desirable that people come to see things as they really are? I don't know. I believe that, in general, people are incapable of it. So therefore it is true that only a monster can see things as they really are, because the monster lies outside of humanity.

Word — That invisible dagger.

Each of us believes, quite unconsciously of course, that he alone pursues the truth, which the rest are incapable of seeking out and unworthy of attaining. This madness is so deep-rooted and so useful that it is impossible to realize what would become of each of us if it were someday to disappear.

To tell the truth, I couldn't care less about the relativity of knowledge, simply because the world does not deserve to be known.

No one has lived so close to his skeleton as I have lived to mine: from which results an endless dialogue and certain truths which I manage neither to accept nor to reject.

Even when he turns from religion, man remains subject to it; depleting himself to create false gods, he then feverishly adopts them; his need for fiction, for mythology triumphs over evidence and absurdity alike.

The Real gives me asthma.

That there should be a reality hidden behind appearances is, after all, quite possible; that language might render such a thing would be an absurd hope.

A free man is one who has discerned the inanity of all points of view; a liberated man is one who has drawn the consequences of such discernment.

numai in indoiala sunt profetii si fanaticii cu adevarat umani.

In flawed families, a scion appears who dedicates himself to the truth and who ruins himself in its pursuit.

De ce un nebun vede mai mult? Fiindca nebunia-i suferinta.

Am avut în toat? viaÅ£a mea o pretenÅ£ie extraordinar?, de a fi omul cel mai lucid pe care l-am cunoscut.

It takes an enormous humility to die. The strange thing is that everyone turns out to have it!

When the habit of seeing things as they are turns into a mania, we lament the madman we have been and are no longer.

The poor maidservant who used to say that she only believed in God when she had a toothache puts all theologians to shame.

I very much like this one :" For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything..For us who do it is merely an illusion..

Our only choice is between irrespirable truths and salutary frauds.

We do not adopt a belief because it is true (they are all true), but because some obscure power impels us to do so. When this power leaves us, we suffer prostration and collapse, a tete-a-tete with what is left of ourselves.

Doar copiii ?i nebunii ?tiu s? nu mint?.

An den Verheißungen der Utopie scheint alles bewundernswert und ist alles falsch; an den Feststellungen der Reaktionäre ist alles verabscheuenswert und scheint alles wahr.

Sa petreci o seara intreaga langa un om care traieste in minciuna,care e un gunoi dar nu stie (sau nu crede) ca este,o asemenea seara iti lasa un dezgust care a doua zi te bantuie si-ti strica ziua.

Femeia a contat în ochii noÅŸtri cât timp a simulat pudoarea ÅŸi reÅ£inerea. Ce eroare, din parte-i, s? înceteze s?-ÅŸi mai joace rolul! Deja nu mai valoreaz? nimic, de vreme ce ne seam?n?. AÅŸa dispare una din ultimele minciuni care f?ceau existenÅ£a suportabil?.