Quotes About Truth

Right View cannot be described. We can only point in the correct direction.

To succeed in the practice, we must stop trying to prove that everything is suffering. In fact, we must stop trying to prove anything. If we touch the truth of suffering with our mindfulness, we will be able to recognize and identify our specific suffering, its specific causes, and the way to remove those causes and end our suffering.

The Buddha said many times, "My teaching is like a finger pointing to the moon. Do not mistake the finger for the moon.

Buddha nature is the ability to understand and touch our real nature.

What matters is whether we want to lie or to tell the truth and write the truth, even though it never can be the truth and never is the truth.

Das allerdings ist ein absurder Gedanke. Andererseits sind, wie ich im Laufe meines Lebens jetzt schon mit Entschiedenheit weiß, gerade die absurden Gedanken die klarsten Gedanken und die absurdesten die wichtigsten überhaupt.

Our libraries are so to speak prisons where we've locked up our intellectual giants, naturally Kant has been put in solitary confinement, like Nietzsche, like Schopenhauer, like Pascal, like Voltaire, like Montaigne, all the real giants have been put in solitary confinement, all the others in mass confinement, but everyone for ever and ever, my friend, for all time and unto eternity, that's the truth.

The facts are always frightening, and in all of us fear of the facts is constantly at work, constantly being fuelled; but this morbid fear must not lead us to conceal the facts and so to falsify the whole of human history -- which is of course part of natural history -- and pass it on in falsified form just because it is customary to do so, when we know that all history is falsified and always transmitted in falsified form.

was die Schriftsteller schreiben ist nichts gegen die Wirklichkeit die Wirklichkeit ist so schlimm dass sie nicht beschrieben werden kann noch kein Schriftsteller hat die Wirklichkeit so beschrieben wie sie wirklich ist das ist das Fürchterliche

Todo totalmente distinto. Porque lo anotado no es exacto. Nada de lo que se anota es exacto. No puede pretender nada. Ni siquiera precisión, aunque todo se consigne según el leal saber y entender, pensando saber algo sobre un asunto totalmente cierto. Siempre será, en el mejor de los casos, menos falso. Pero falso. Distinto. Por consiguiente, no verdadero.

We may know for decades that someone close to us is a ridiculous person, but it's only after a lapse of decades that we suddenly see it.

We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.

El lenguaje es inútil cuando se trata de decir la verdad, de comunicar cosas, sólo permite al que escribe la aproximación, siempre, únicamente, una aproximación desesperada y, por ello, dudosa al objeto, el lenguaje sólo reproduce una autenticidad falsificada, una deformación espantosa, por mucho que el que escribe se esfuerce, las palabras lo aplastan todo contra el suelo y lo dislocan todo y convierten la verdad total en mentira sobre el papel.

Talking to young people gets us nowhere, I thought, and anyone who asserts the contrary is a hypocrite, for young people have nothing to say to their elders, to old people—that's the truth. What the young have to say to the old is of absolutely no interest, none whatever, I thought, and to assert the contrary is gross hypocrisy.

Unsere Bibliotheken sind sozusagen Strafanstalten, in welche wir unsere Geistesgrößen eingesperrt haben, Kant naturgemäß in eine Einzelzelle wie Nietzsche, wie Schopenhauer, wie Pascal, wie Voltaire, wie Montaigne, alle ganz großen in Einzelzellen, alle andern in Massenzellen, aber alle für immer und ewig, mein Lieber, für alle Zeit und in die Unendlichkeit hinein, das ist die Wahrheit.

To get ourselves out of a tight spot, it seems to me, we are ourselves just as mendacious as those we are always accusing of mendacity, those whom we despise and drag in the dirt for their mendacity;

Los seres humanos que mueren sin haber conocido su enfermedad, sus enfermedades mortales...

Was die Schriftsteller schreiben ist ja nichts gegen die Wirklichkeit jaja sie schreiben ja daß alles fürchterlich ist daß alles verdorben und verkommen ist daß alles katastrophal ist und daß alles ausweglos ist aber alles das sie schreiben ist nichts gegen die Wirklichkeit die Wirklichkeit ist so schlimm, daß sie nicht beschrieben werden kann noch kein Schriftsteller hat die Wirklichkeit so beschrieben wie sie wirklich ist das ist das Fürchterliche

La verdad es que, durante nuestra vida, sólo tuvimos siempre miedo.

Sav život provedemo u tome da sebe pojmimo i to nam ne uspijeva, pa kako onda povjerovati da možemo pojmiti nešto što najzad nismo mi.

Everything is what it is, that's all. If we keep attaching meanings and mysteries to everything we perceive, everything we see that is, and to everything that goes on inside us, we are bound to go crazy sooner or later, I thought.

Men believe that fire will burn them; and therefore, they will not throw themselves into it. But the truth is, most men live as if they thought the gospel was a mere fable, and the wrath of God, revealed in his word against their unrighteousness and ungodliness, a mere scarecrow. If

the holiest parent begets unholy children, and cannot communicate their grace to them, as they do their nature; which many godly parents find true, in their sad experience.

He who puts on a religious demeanor abroad to gain himself a great name among men, and at the same time lives like an atheist at home, shall at the last be unmasked by God, and presented before all the world for a most detestable hypocrite.