Quotes About Truth

No hay nada peor que la fama, y la realidad tiene esa fama con creces.

Las patatas gratinadas, en efecto, están ya en el horno. Pero no se le escapa que ésa es tan sólo una verdad relativa, pues en cualquier momento una loca, o el mismo Spider, podrían entrar por la puerta de imprevisto y podrían negar esta evidencia y todas las demás, todas, incluso la sobria verdad de las patatas gratinadas.

En una descripción bien hecha, aunque sea obscena, hay algo moral: la voluntad de decir la verdad. Cuando se usa el lenguaje para simplemente obtener un efecto, para no ir más allá de lo que nos está permitido, se incurre paradójicamente en un acto inmoral.

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.

Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.

There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty.

Es necesario no fingir que filosofamos, sino filosofar realmente; no necesitamos, en efecto, aparentar que estamos sanos, sino estarlo verdaderamente.

A lie gets half way around the world before the truth can get it's pants on.

It is not the pretended but the real pursuit of philosophy that is needed for we do not need the appearance of good health but to enjoy it in truth.

It is not possible for a man to banish all fear of the essential questions of life unless he understands the nature of the universe and unless he banishes all consideration that the fables told about the universe could be true. Therefore a man cannot enjoy full happiness, untroubled by turmoil, unless he acts to gain knowledge of the nature of things.

The opinions held by most people about the gods are not true conceptions of them but fallacious notions, according to which awful penalties are meted out to the evil and the greatest of blessings to the good.

The strong stand taken by the Epicureans against all these tendencies was taken not in the name of science and human knowledge alone but in the name of human happiness, on the reasonable assumption that if men know the true nature of reality they are more likely to be happy than if they do not. Hence the happy and the good life presupposes knowing and knowing how to know.

Se em suas idéias baseadas na opinião, você apressadamente afirmar como verdadeiro tudo o que aguarda confirmação e o que não espera confirmação, não escapará ao erro, pois estará mantendo total ambiguidade sempre que se tratar de julgar entre a opinião certa e a errada.

onde as evidências são conflitantes, a certeza não deve ser alegada.

Hence we must attend to present feelings and sense perceptions, whether those of mankind in general or those peculiar to the individual, and also attend to all the clear evidence available, as given by each of the standards of truth. For by studying them we shall rightly trace to its cause and banish the source of disturbance and dread, accounting for celestial phenomena and for all other things which from time to time befall us and cause the utmost alarm to the rest of mankind.

sense data are what they are, and they are infallible, being mechanically transmitted to us by atomic images from the outer world. They may be overlaid with misleading interpretations and lead to "false opinions," 39 but they are true if confirmed by close inspection or if they are not contradicted.

All Cretans are liars.

In the beginning (????) was the Word" (Jn 1:1) is not primarily a temporal statement. The

If one searches for Christ—the Truth, the Light, the Beauty—in the world or in heaven "in order to destroy him", not to adore him and love him, but to manipulate and conform him to our desires, it would have been better to have remained at the level of an idiocy that does not search at all.

Half the work that is done in the world is to make things appear what they are not.

Others clung to the belief that the rumors did not reflect the truth until the very end. Some who heard about the extermination camps did not want to believe in systematic mass murder.

But where the Jews were concerned, did they talk about that? Many people say that nobody talked about it. They're lying.

Among those who said they had heard something about it, 60 percent said they had completely believed it and 8 percent said that they had believed it in part. Among the rest, 14 percent said they had not believed it at first, and 18 percent said that they had not believed it at all.