Quotes About Truth

There is no truth, only perception.

Atlar?n? çift sürmeye gönderecek yerde üzerlerine bindiÄŸinden , Elma ÅŸarab?n satacak yerde kendini içtiÄŸinden, Kümesinin en besili hayvanlar?n? yediÄŸinden, Av çizmelerini domuzlar?n?n içya??yla yaÄŸlad???ndan bütün ticareti olduÄŸu yerde b?rak?vermenin daha iyi olaca??n? anlamakta gecikmedi.

Los discursos exagerados solo sirven para encubrir afectos mediocres.

La vie, voyez-vous, ça n'est jamais si bon ni si mauvais qu'on croit.

il ne faut chercher que la vérité, sans s'occuper de la morale enseignée, orthodoxe et officielle ; de la morale, cette prétendue loi naturelle, indéfiniment variable, facultative, cette chose dosée différemment pour chaque pays, appréciée de façon nouvelle par chaque expert, prêtre ou législateur, et sans cesse modifiée par tout le monde.

Then she added, no doubt in answer to her own thoughts: 'You see, life is never as good or as bad as one thinks.'  

Cât de plin? de pl?ceri ar fi viaÈ›a, dac? am putea fi siguri de alÈ›ii c? vom p?stra t?cerea. Ceea ce È›ine în frâu pe femei adesea, foarte adesea, aproape întotdeauna, e frica de a nu se descoperi secretul.

Oare femeile nu n?d?jduiesc totdeuna altceva decât ceea ce este?

La parole éblouit et trompe, parce qu'elle est mimée par le visage, parce qu'on la voit sortir des lèvres, et que les lèvres plaisent et que les yeux séduisent. mais les mots noirs sur le papier blanc, c'est l'âme toute nue.

Hát mindenki aljas, hazug és álnok? Szeme könnybe borult. Ábrándjainkat néha olyan szomorúan siratjuk, mint a halottakat.

Ja ta lisas nagu omaenese mõtte jätkuks: No näete nüüd, põle see elu ühti nii hea ega nii halb kui paistab.

Ona, Bütün bu hayvanlar korkunç, dedim. Gülerek, Oh, hay?r! En korkuncu insan, dedi.

Látja…az élet nem olyan jó…De nem is olyan rossz, amilyennek hisszük.

But a lie that can no longer be challenged becomes insane.

Dans le monde réellement renversé, le vrai est un moment faux.

When ideology has become total through its possession of total power, and has changed from partial truth to totalitarian falsehood, historical thought has been so totally annihilated that history itself, even at the level of the most empirical knowledge, can no longer exist. Totalitarian bureaucratic society lives in a perpetual present in which whatever has previously happened is determined solely by its police.

But for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, appearance to essence . . . truth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred. Sacredness is in fact held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be the highest degree of sacredness." —Feuerbach, Preface to the second edition of The Essence of Christianity

The spectacle does not realize philosophy, it philosophizes reality.

A lie that can no longer be challenged becomes insane.

Nel mezzo del cammin della vera vita, eravamo circondati da una malinconia oscura, che tante parole tristi e beffarde hanno espresso, nel caffè della gioventù perduta.

Le monde possède déjà le rêve d'un temps dont il doit maintenant posséder la conscience pour le vivre réellement.

Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation.

When we stop blaming the darkness, or ourselves, for having been walking in it, and decide, instead, to thank the Light for showing us the truth of our actual estate... then we turn the corner in our work to awaken conscience.

Our problem is that we're sure we have to do something to be free. Strangely enough, the only thing between us and a life without limits is this mistaken idea.