Quotes About Truth

No mientas por nada, nunca.

Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologues are always dangerous when they come to power, because a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach

The Way, the Taoist path of life, is represented by (or exists on) the border between the twin serpents. The Way is the path of proper Being. It's the same Way as that referred to by Christ in John 14:6: I am the way, and the truth and the life. The same idea is expressed in Matthew 7:14: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

Acabé dándome cuenta mientras pensaba en estas cosas de que aquello que se puede amar de verdad en una persona está indisociablemente unido a sus limitaciones.

The order that is most real is the order that is most unchanging—and that is not necessarily the order that is most easily seen.

Truth is the ultimate, inexhaustible natural resource.

Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.

If you will not reveal yourself to others, you cannot reveal yourself to yourself. That does not only mean that you suppress who you are, although it also means that. It means that so much of what you could be will never be forced by necessity to come forward. This is a biological truth, as well as a conceptual truth.

Jordan B. Peterson

Those who have lied enough, in word and action, live there, in hell—now.

people get unbelievably upset when you poke them in the axioms

lies warp the structure of Being. Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.

Život je patnja. Buddha je to vrlo jasno rekao. Krš?ani to prikazuju slikovito, raspe?em samoga Boga. Židovska vjera obiluje prisje?anjima na tu istinu. Istovjetnost izme?u života i ograni?enja jedna je od primarnih i neizbježnih ?injenica postojanja. Ranjivost našega Bi?a ?ini nas podložnima bolima društvenoga prosu?ivanja, prijezira i neminovna sloma naših tijela.

Corruption of the form we are discussing is, in my opinion, integrally linked to deception—to lying, more bluntly—and more important, to self-deception.

El caos es el recóndito fondo oceánico al que Pinocho viajó para rescatar a su padre de Monstruo, la ballena que escupía fuego. Ese viaje hacia la oscuridad es una de las pruebas más difíciles que un muñeco tiene que superar si quiere ser real, si quiere arrancarse de las tentaciones del engaño, el fingimiento, la victimización, el placer impulsivo y la subyugación totalitaria, es decir, si quiere ocupar un puesto como verdadero Ser en el mundo.

Willful blindness is the refusal to know something that could be known.

Nietzsche said that a man's worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate. You are by no means only what you already know. You are also all that which you could know, if you only would.

not with intent to destroy, or attain victory, because that's not the truth: that's just all-out war).

Lying leads to Hell. It was the great and the small lies of the Nazi and Communist states that produced the deaths of millions of people.

He found people he admired; who were honest, despite everything. He took himself apart, piece by piece, let what was unnecessary and harmful die, and resurrected himself. Then he wrote The Gulag Archipelago, a history of the Soviet prison camp system.115 It's a forceful, terrible book, written with the overwhelming moral force of unvarnished truth. Its sheer outrage

Istina uvijek iznova izvire iz najdubljih izvora Bi?a. Ona ?e ?uvati vašu dušu da ne vene i ne umire u suo?avanju s neizbježnom tragedijom života. Pomo?i ?e vam da izbjegnete strašnu želju za osvetom zbog te tragedije koja je dio strašnog grijeha Bi?a i koju svi i sve moraju dostojanstveno podnositi samo kako bi mogli postojati.

Scientific truths were made explicit a mere five hundred years ago, with the work of Francis Bacon, René Descartes and Isaac Newton. In whatever manner our forebears viewed the world prior to that, it was not through a scientific lens (any more than they could view the moon and the stars through the glass lenses of the equally recent telescope).

lying) it's really underdiagnosed as a cause of psychiatric disorder

conflict in the present, in the service of longer-term truth and peace?