Quotes About Truth

Many humans live their entire lives without questioning the 'truths' they've been told.

Even if our dealings with the lowly animals, this sort of relativism works its evils. What makes Mr. Komatsu's argument so insidious is its denial that there are realities about animals, that these realities are in crucial respects knowable, and that once known, we are morally obliged to accept and to act upon them regardless of culture or personal preference.

We may not know or agree upon moral truths. But we do know that opposite things cannot at the same time ne true: identical creatures at the same time capable of suffering and incapable of suffering, worthy of moral consideration and unworthy of such concern, within the reach of God's love and beneath it.

There's probably some truth in the idea that killing for sport is an act of rebellion against one's own mortality, as if in possessing the power of death one somehow defeats or deflects it.

We may not know or agree upon moral truths. But we do know that opposite things cannot at the same time be true: identical creatures at the same time capable of suffering and incapable of suffering, worthy of moral consideration and unworthy of such concern, within the reach of God's love and beneath it.

Every age, as Allan Bloom observed, is blind to its own worst madness.

Words are lies. It's what's beneath the words that has any hope of being true.

The Core truth of Jerusalem today, it seems to me, is a jagged dislocation between appearance and reality. Whatever you see here is not really what's going on.

Seht ihr den Mond dort stehen? Er ist nur halb zu sehen, Und ist doch rund und schön! So sind wohl manche Sachen, Die wir getrost belachen, Weil unsre Augen sie nicht sehn.

Die Wahrheit richtet sich nicht nach uns, sondern wir müssen uns nach ihr richten.

The truth is that even if resentment is triggered by an external object, it is not located anywhere else but in our mind.

In our daily lives, where we're bombarded by the fake and the trivial, reading serves as a way to stop, shut out the noise of the world, and try to grab hold of something real, no matter how small.

It could have been like a fairy tale. But fairy tales aren't real. Things don't work like that. There's a price for everything.

No moose, Stevie said. The moose is a lie.

And I think something is beautiful if it reveals something important about what it means to be alive.

Can I tell you something you really don't want to hear? He's going to break up with you. - Stuart

It just seemed like telling the truth would mean admitting some weakness

Lies are a tremendous karmic setback. Keep it up and you'll come back in the next life as something without a spine. You're not fine. And you don't have to be fine.

We're good at lying," Sebastian said, leaning over and managing a smile. "We've been doing it for years.

The full truth was a little too much to throw at a stranger.

I had no idea why I was saying this. It just seemed like telling the truth would mean admitting some weaknesses.

Knowledge is the heaviest weight of all.

Sometimes you have to see the bathroom to know the harsh reality of things.

My project . . . is solving the case." "Solving it?" Charles said, cocking his head. "Doing a report on it?" "No," she said. "I mean . . . figuring out what happened." Charles removed his glasses, folded them, and leaned back in his chair. "That's a fairly tall order