Quotes About Truth

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.

I'm a minimalist. I see things in simple ways...It's human nature to define complexity as better. Well, it's not.

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.

The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we're talking about.

Everything we see in nature is manifested truth; only we are not able to recognize it unless truth is manifest within ourselves.

Nothing in nature is as simple as it sometimes seems when reduced to words.

As we gaze into the mirror it holds up for us, we too easily imagine that what we behold is Nature when in fact we see the reflection of our own unexamined longings and desires.

You know that you are. Don't burden yourself with names, just be. Any name or shape you give yourself obscures your real nature.

Nature is honest, we aren't; we embalm our dead.

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.

Our reality is influenced by our notions about reality, regardless of the nature of those notions

There is nothing to practice. To know yourself, be yourself. To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking.

Believe one who has tried, you shall find a fuller satisfaction in the woods than in the books. The trees and the rocks will teach you that which you cannot hear from the masters.

White does not exist in nature.

I knew then that the Christian church thrives on hypocrisy, and that man's carnal nature will out...

Simplicity is the great friend to nature, and if I would be proud of anything in this silly world, it should be of this honest alliance.

One of the truest things to commit to is your own nature.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Seeing into one's self-nature is seeing into nothingness. Seeing into nothingness is true seeing & eternal seeing

Climb the mountains, search the valleys, the deserts, the seashores, the deep recesses of the earth, for only in this way and no other will you arrive at the true nature of things.

To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature.

..to change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil.

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.