Quotes About Truth

I am a woman who slept with my father the Pope. They say I did, at least, and so does he. And who am I to make the Pope a liar, And who is he to make a liar of me?

Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery, she said to herself, not for the first time. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery

What's impossible, she said, is to know the truth inside someone else's heart if they don't tell you. pg. 556

There's a reason we live in time. We are too small a flask [...] to tolerate too much knowing. Instead, truth must drip through us as through a pipette, to allow only moments of apprehension. Moments diffuse and miniature enough to be survived.

As Oscar Wilde wrote, with his characteristic brand of thought-provoking overstatement, "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." Now

I felt light and heavy at the same time. I wondered if the itako we visited had really talked to my dead friend, if they actually talk to anyone, or were they simply meting out consolation at two thousand yen a shot? I didn't care. We are always looking for difficult truths in easy contexts and demanding simple answers within complicated wholes.

everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are

Truth is like fire; to tell the truth means to glow and burn.

Love art. Of all lies, it is the least untrue.

But that happiness, no doubt, was a lie invented for the despair of all desire. She now knew the smallness of the passions that art exaggerated.

Ah! thought Rodolphe, turning very pale, that was what she came for. At last he said with a calm air— Dear madame, I have not got them. He did not lie. If he had had them, he would, no doubt, have given them, although it is generally disagreeable to do such fine things: a demand for money being, of all the winds that blow upon love, the coldest and most destructive.

It's no easy business to be simple.

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times

Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this.

Ama l'arte; fra tutte le menzogne è ancora quella che mente di meno.

Amad el arte. De todas las mentiras es la menos mentirosa.

las palabras exageradas que ocultaban medianas afecciones

But that happiness, no doubt, was a lie imagined in despair of all desire. She now knew the pettiness of the passions which art exaggerated.

notre siècle est un siècle de putains, et ce qu'il y a de moins prostitué, jusqu'à présent, ce sont les prostituées.

totdeauna r?mîne în conÈ™tiin?? ceva din sofismele strecurate în ea; p?streaz? un iz, ca dup? o b?utur? rea./ ... il reste toujours dans la conscience quelque chose des sophismes qu'on y a versés; elle en garde l'arrière-goût,comme d'une liqueur mauvaise.(©BeQ)

What is beautiful is moral, that is all, and nothing more

As to texts, look at history; it, is known that all the texts have been falsified by the Jesuits.

Anyone without religions will always go wrong in the end!

We obtain merit only by our thirst for truth.