Quotes About Truth

Ieder woord dat ze spreekt is waar. Het is alleen niet de waarheid die me pijn doet, maar het gebrek aan medeleven.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.

And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.' To remit debts is to renounce our own personality. It means renouncing everything that goes to make up our ego, without any exception. It means knowing that in the ego there is nothing whatever, no psychological element, that external circumstances could not do away with. It means accepting that truth. It means being happy that things should be so."

We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached.

A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.

We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, "I am suffering," than to say, "This landscape is ugly.

There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.

Gli Italiani ridono della vita: ne ridono assai più e con più verità e persuasione intima di disprezzo e di freddezza di tutte le altre nazioni.

NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.

Doing the right thing is actually the right thing to do.

There comes a time when we have to put "knowing" aside and stick to "being.

I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?

Never waste your time trying to prove them that you were not wrong, they know the truth.

We all like the idea of freedom of speech, but nobody likes to be confronted by the truth.

We are turn out to be disliked by many, if we tell the truth.

Half the evils of the world come from inaccuracy.

The easiest person to deceive is one's own self.