Quotes About Truth

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

No, no, not in the law, it ain't. Not in the end, I mean. When a man is dead, sense must be made of it; and it might as well be sense as serves the living, for it won't serve the dead, nohow.

Knowledge is never too dear.

Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

Y eres así a la espada parecida, que matas más desnuda que vestida.

Donde hay poca justicia es un peligro tener razón.

Mas, vulgo, pues sé quién eres, a la larga o a la corta diga yo lo que me importa y di tú lo que quisieres.

I don't want to impose a retrospective clarity of will on what had certainly been months immersed in a flailing muddle, but if there isn't some truth to the narratives of progress with which we sometimes try to frame our lives, however rooted in desperate delusion, we'd never be able to speak them, certainly not silently to ourselves, with any conviction.

There are no shadows in darkness. Shadows are created by light, and only exist in the presence of light. Refusing to acknowledge our shadow leads us to deny the presence of light in us.

Only our imagination has the power to create the world you want and whatever gives you true joy. Beware of those who tell you to face reality and let go of your imagination. All they may truly ask for is that you shift your imagination from what you want to what they want.

When you stop pretending to be who you are not and start being yourself, there is a big risk: significant people in your life may not accept you and leave. Yet, when you stop being yourself and pretend to be who you are not, there is a much bigger risk: the people who would accept and love you just as you are, may not accept you and leave.

We are afraid of the unknown, of what is beyond our perception of reality, which is why we buy into consensus reality, pretending to know who and where we are, what is real and unreal. Yet the unknown is waiting for each one of us behind the corner and sooner or later it will prevail. Then, of whom we pretend to be, of where we are, nothing will be left.

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

A good historian is timeless although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities.

History is fables agreed upon.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Philosopher A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother.

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

Gossip needn't be false to be evil — there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.

Les livres ont-ils pour mission d'embellir la vie ou de la restituer telle quelle ?

Always be careful, my boy, what you make up. Life's more full of things made up on the Spur of the Moment than most people realize. Beware of the Spur of the Moment. It may turn and rend you.