Quotes About Truth

whether they knew of didn't know is not the main issue; the main issue is whether a man is innocent because he didn't know. (...) by beating himself on the chest and proclaiming, My conscience is clear! I did not know! I was a believer! Isn't his I did not know I was a believer! at the very root of his irreparable guilt?

It is a tragicomic fact that our proper upbringing has become an ally of the secret police. (...) The Tell the truth! imperative drummed into us so automatically that we feel ashamed of lying even to a secret policeman.

Franz, on the other hand, was certain that the division of life into private and public spheres is the source of all lies: a person is one thing in private and something quite different in public. For Franz, living in truth meant breaking down the barriers between the private and the public. He was fond of quoting André Breton on the desirability of living in a glass house into which everyone can look and there are no secrets.

Na frente estava a mentira inteligível, e atrás a incompreensível verdade.

A value debased and an illusion unmasked have the same pitiful shell.

Anyone who thinks that the Communist regimes of Central Europe are exclusively the work of criminals is overlooking a basic truth: the criminal regimes were made not by criminals but by enthusiasts convinced that they had discovered the road to paradise.

Komünistler kapitalizmin evriminin proletaryay? gitgide yoksullaÅŸt?raca??na inanm??lard?, günün birinde Avrupa'n?n bütün iÅŸçilerinin iÅŸlerine arabayla gittiÄŸini keÅŸfedince, gerçeÄŸin hile yapt???n? hayk?rmak arzusuna kap?lm??lard?r. Gerçek, ideolojiden daha güçlüydü.

Meni se, me?utim, ?ini da umjesto zidova svuda vidim samo kulise. A razaranje kulisa stvar je dobra i pravedna.

He had come to find out that reality was more than a dream, much more than a dream!

and even if she did find them ugly, she would never say so, because flattery had long since become second nature to her

You'll learn either that people aren't human or that you don't know what humans are like

Porque o homem pensa e a verdade escapa-lhe. Porque quanto mais os homens pensam, mais o pensamento de um se afasta do outro. E, finalmente, porque o homem nunca é aquilo que pensa ser.

Cum putea s? È™tie? Cum putea s? verifice? În orele de fizic?, orice elev poate s? fac? experienÈ›e spre a verifica exactitatea unei ipoteze È™tiinÈ›ifice. Omul îns?, pentru faptul c? dispune doar de o singur? via??, nu are nicio posibilitate s? verifice ipoteza prin experien??, drept care nu va afla niciodat? dac? a greÈ™it sau dac? a f?cut bine dând ascultare sentimentelor sale.

He had come to find out once and for all that neither parades nor Sabina but rather the girl with the glasses was his real life, his only real life! He had come to find out that reality was more than a dream, much more than a dream!

Y así es como funciona el mundo que nos rodea. Si insistiese en decirle la verdad a la cara, eso significaría que me lo tomo en serio. Y tomarse en serio algo tan poco serio significa perder la seriedad. Yo, hermano, tengo que mentir si no quiero tomarme en serio a los locos y convertirme yo mismo en uno de los locos.

Ése es uno de los curiosos secretos de la vida, el de que los inocentes cargan con la culpa en lugar de los culpables.

It is a tragicomic fact that our proper upbringing has become an ally of the secret police. We do not know how to lie. The Tell the truth! imperative drummed into us by our mamas and papas functions so automatically that we feel ashamed of lying even to a secret policeman during an interrogation. It is simpler for us to argue with him or insult him (which makes no sense whatever) than to lie to his face (which is the only thing to do).

Al igual que todos nosotros, Klima también consideraba real únicamente aquello que llega a nuestra vida desde dentro, gradual, orgánicamente, mientras que a lo que llega desde fuera, inesperada y casualmente, lo veía como si fuera una invasión de lo irreal. Por desgracia no hay nada más real que esta irrealidad.

It is a tragicomic fact that our proper upbringing has become an ally of the secret police. We do not know how to lie.

La poesía lírica es un territorio en el que cualquier afirmación se hace verdad.

O mais pesado dos fardos nos esmaga, verga-nos, comprime-nos contra o chão. Na poesia amorosa de todos os séculos, porém, a mulher deseja receber o fardo do corpo masculino. O mais pesado dos fardos é, portanto, ao mesmo tempo a imagem da realização vital mais intensa. Quanto mais pesado é o fardo, mais próxima da terra está nossa vida, e mais real e verdadeira ela é.

I have become so pessimistic that these days I'd even choose the truth over friendship.

Como cada um de nós, Klima só atribuía realidade ao que penetrava na sua vida por dentro, progressivamente, organicamente, enquanto o que vinha do exterior, bruscamente e fortuitamente, era por ele vivido como uma invasão do irreal. Mas, ai de nós, nada é mais real do que este irreal).

Most people deceive themselves with a pair of faiths: they believe in eternal memory (of people, things, nations) and in redressibility (of mistakes, sins, wrongs)... In reality the opposite is true: everything will be forgotten and nothing will be redressed.