Quotes About Truth

Emperor Marcus Aurelius: We should not say I am an Athenian or I am a Roman but I am a citizen of the Universe...For there is only one universe, one God, one truth. —Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.

A feeling is not a fact.

Ah I can see that.... You can see anything once you've been told it's there to see

The question is not: do we believe in God? but rather: does God believe in us? And the answer is: only an unbeliever could have created our image of God; and only a false God could be satisfied with it.

The question is not: do we believe in God? but rather: does God believe in us? And the answer is: only an unbeliever could have created our image of God: and only a fake God could be satisfied with it.

Greatness and Truth can never be in danger from these murdering wretches. To perform one's duty, be it now, be it clean, and be it done with humility… A man is a sacred thing. ANY ACTION OR THOUGHT WHICH INJURES THE HUMAN IMAGINATION IS EVIL.

If the truth is inside, And the form is outside, What is the truth of sleep?

I write for one and only one purpose, to overcome the invincible ignorance of the traduced heart. […] I wish to speak to and for those who have had enough of the Social Lie, the Economics of Mass Murder, the Sexual Hoax, and the Domestication of Conspicuous Consumption.

A common mistake in business writing is to use quotation marks for emphasis: This bolt provides "superior" tensile strength. When the head of a large company put quotation marks around a word in an important paper, his administrative assistant asked him why he did that. He replied that it was to stress the truth of the point. The assistant asked whether it would stress the truth if he were to register at a hotel as John Durgin and "wife.

Impermanence is the way of reality. The world changes. We ourselves change. Change is the only truth. Therefore, to hold on to a fixed idea, concept, doctrine, or opinion is like committing spiritual suicide.

As Catholic mystic Thomas Merton observed, "Everything that is, is holy." To see the truth of this statement is the beginning of an abundant life.

One of the most profound truths that Mahayana Buddhism teaches is that nirvana is samsara (the troubled world). [...] The same truth is expressed most beautifully in the Christian image of the Incarnation: God descends to reascend. There can be no ascension without descent. We must realize that Zen and Christianity are not telling two different stories but one story.

Truth is like life in that we cannot freeze it without killing it.

A sure sign of false faith is its militant stance. While true faith is marked by its gentleness to all aspects of life, false faith can be easily identified by its stubbornness, inflexibility, paranoia, and a desperate need to be right.

For most people, truth is closely associated with with solidity, finality, permanence, universality, and security. But Jesus used the metaphor of "living water" for truth. [...] While we tend to visualize truth as some kind of sacred rock, Jesus visualized it as water: amorphous, adaptable, and incapable of being grasped.

I'll explain what I just said." She turned to look squarely at Captain Hudson. "I'll have to explain something else, too. I am not Lt. Charlotte Tennyson. I am her clone!

There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect.

What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.

we are justifying poetry by 'proving' that it is something else, just as, I believe, we have justified religion with the discovery that it is science."4

You must have love as the core it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.

Without the adjustment, you are working under a lie. Everyone knows it and has to hide to protect themselves. This is no way to get good software done and deployed;

It all comes out in the wash. It's just the spin cycle that makes you crazy