Quotes About Truth

Of all the things that are beyond my power, I value nothing more highly than to be allowed the honor of entering into bonds of friendship with people who sincerely love truth. For, of things beyond our power, I believe there is nothing in the world which we can love with tranquility except such men.

In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.

By reality and perfection I mean the same thing.

He who has a true idea simultaneously knows that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth of the thing perceived.

Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from citizens.

Il est contre le bon sens de mettre une enveloppe précieuse à des choses de néant ou de peu de valeur.

In so far as we understand, we can desire nothing but that which must be, nor, in an absolute sense, can we find contentment in anything but truth.

Indeed, just as light makes manifest both itself and darkness, so truth is the standard both of itself and falsity.

Falsity consists in the privation of knowledge, which inadequate, fragmentary, or confused ideas involve.

He who, while unacquainted with these writings, nevertheless knows by the natural light that there is a God having the attributes we have recounted, and who also pursues a true way of life, is altogether blessed.

Baruch Spinoza

Si existiese un dios o algún ser omnisciente, este ser no podría forjar absolutamente ficción alguna

What is important is to keep our mind high in the world of true understanding, and returning to the world of our daily experience to seek therein the truth of beauty. No mater what we may be doing at a given moment, we must not forget that it has a bearing upon our everlasting self which is poetry.

Do not think like a human. You have the ability within you to create anything you wish. Truth is, you are all highly powerful entities walking this planet, disguised as simple biological beings & the disguise fools everyone -- even yourself.

All emotions stem from beliefs. You can't feel something without believing something to be true first.

For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought.

Opposition to the truth is inevitable, especially if it takes the form of a new idea, but the degree of resistance can be diminished-by giving thought not only to the aim but to the method of approach.

Avoid a frontal attack on a long established position; instead, seek to turn it by flank movement, so that a more penetrable side is exposed to the thrust of truth. But, in any such indirect approach, take care not to diverge from the truth-for nothing is more fatal to its real advancement than to lapse into untruth.

But Quebec is an illuminating example of the truth that a decision is produced even more by the mental and moral dislocation of the command than by the physical dislocation of its forces.

Refusal to accept reality does not change reality. My girlfriend broke up with me. I said, "I can't imagine you leaving me." She said, "Well, let me help. You stay here. I'm going to turn around. Then I'm going to start walking. To you, it'll seem like I'm getting smaller."

When you invent something, you're drawing on reservoirs of knowledge that you already have. It's only when you're faithful to the truth that something can come to you from the outside.

Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end.

There is no more hope for meaning. And without a doubt this is a good thing: meaning is mortal.

For it is with the same imperialism that present-day simulators try to make the real, all the real, coincide with their simulation models.