Quotes About Truth

For the historian of religions, every manifestation of the sacred is important: every rite, every myth, every belief or divine figure reflects the experience of the sacred and hence implies the notions of being, of meaning, and of truth ... In short, the sacred is an element in the structure of consciousness and not a stage in the history of consciousness.

el iniciado, el que ha conocido los misterios, es el que sabe.

The pharaoh is the incarnation of maat, a term translated by "truth" but whose general meaning is "good order" and hence "right," "justice.

The myths that projected Jesus of Nazareth into a universe of archetypes and transcendent figures are as "true" as his acts and words; indeed, these myths confirm the strength and creativity of his original message.

Comedy is life, built big perhaps, but always built true.

Conversing with children is a fine art.... An art form that demands large amounts of both honesty and misdirection. Or maybe discretion is a better word.

I don't know now why I let her believe otherwise, but someday, perhaps, it will be clear.

Surely, she says, encouraging others to lie on our behalves must be a worse sin than lying ourselves.

Això d'animar les altres a mentir en benefici nostre ha de ser un pecat més greu que el de mentir nosaltres mateixes.

No trobeu que la mentida de fer veure que es perdona amb paraules però no de cor és més greu que el simple fet de no perdonar?

Em recorda el que va dir Montaigne: «No hi ha res que es cregui amb tanta fermesa com el que es coneix menys».

I look at the boys, asleep, unconscious to be exact, and plead silently with them to tell me the truth.

Crec en el que pensava el gran poeta Samuel Taylor Coleridge sobre quins eren els punts cardinals de l'educació primerenca: «Treballar amb amor i així crear amor. Acostumar la ment a la precisió intel·lectual i la veritat. Estimular el poder de la imaginació». Coleridge conclou la seva obra Lecture on Education amb aquestes paraules: «Ben poc s'aprèn de la competició o la baralla, tot s'aprèn de la comprensió i de l'amor».

But that's what thinking is, says Ona. And thinking is one of the things we want to be free to do. The things we know to exist or to be true don't require us to dwell on them.

I believe in what the great poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge thought were the cardinal rules of early education: 1. To work by love and so generate love 2. To habituate the mind to intellectual accuracy and truth 3. To excite imaginative power In his lecture on education, Coleridge concluded with the words 'Little is taught by contest or dispute, everything by sympathy and love.

Treba ostati logi?an, jer bilo kako bilo, logika nikada nije nepouzdan vodi?. Istina je: bio sam prili?no sam, ali osamljenost još uvijek nije dokaz da ?ovjek nema pravo.

Istina je: bio sam prili?no sam ali osamljenost još uvijek nije dokaz da ?ovjek nema pravo

Ljudi se me?usobno varaju, lažu jedni drugima u lice, obmanjuju se laskanjem i prozirno pretvorljivim udvaranjem, a to im ?esto poštenoljudski izgleda nerazmjerno hrabrije nego da jedni drugima kažu golu istinu.

We also give up on the quest for truth when we marshal all forces—in exegesis and history as well as in philosophical, moral, and practical theology—to "discover" and corroborate predetermined dogmatic stances.

When we forget that, we unwittingly reduce God's ways to our ways and God's thoughts to our thoughts. Our hearts become factories of idols in which we fashion and refashion God to fit our needs and desires.

Our theology is insufficiently Christian—and less revealing of the truth than it should be, if Christian claims are indeed true (as we believe them to be)—when we repeat in religious idiom normative stances that nontheologians advocate, often with better arguments and greater rhetorical power.

Je?li chcesz pozna? czyj? prawdziwy charakter, daj mu w?adz? i pieni?dze. Wtedy poka?e ci swoj? w?a?ciw? twarz.

There is everything you know and there is everything that happens. When the two do not line up, you make a choice.

There are two stories for every life; the one you live, and the one others tell.