Quotes About Truth

Since thou hast faithfully obeyed the true religion of God in the past, it behooveth thee to follow His true religion hereafter, inasmuch as every religion proceedeth from God, the Help in Peril, the Self-Subsisting.

The One true God may be compared unto the sun and the believer unto a mirror. No sooner is the mirror placed before the sun than it reflects its light. The unbeliever may be likened unto a stone. No matter how long it is exposed to the sunshine, it cannot reflect the sun.

A brahmin once asked the Blessed One: Are you a God? No, brahmin, said the Blessed One. Are you a saint? No, brahmin, said the Blessed One. Are you a magician? No, brahmin, said the Blessed One. What are you then? ''I am awake.

Virginity is in the lies of the beholder.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common - they don't change their views to fit the facts. They change the facts to fit their views

We can't quite decide if the world is growing worse, or if the reporters are just working harder.

You can keep your secrete hidden from people but you can't hide the sun with your thump.

it was a great big lie.

For the sake of peace one may lie, but peace itself should never be a lie.

How many men with a microphone can tell you what he loves the most?

Truth doesn't make a noise.

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.

Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.

Indeed, happiness is nothing other than being encompassed, an after-image of the original shelter within the mother. But for this reason no one who is happy can know that he is so. To see happiness, he would have to pass out of it: to be as if already born. He who says he is happy lies, and in invoking happiness, sins against it. He alone keeps faith who says: I was happy.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being true.

Our perspective of life has passed into an ideology which conceals the fact that there is life no longer.

Statistics are like women; mirrors of purest virtue and truth, or like whores to use as one pleases.

Die Mannsleute sind doch immer noch schlimmer als man denkt.

Ja, Herr Baron, es gibt viele Wege, die zu zu Gott führen, und es gibt viele Wege, die zu Glück führen, dessen bin ich in meinem Herzen gleicherweise gewiss. Und der eine Weg ist gut und der andere Weg ist gut. Aber jeder gute Weg muss ein offner Weg und ein gerader Weg sein und in der Sonne liegen und ohne Morast und ohne Sumpf und ohne Irrlicht. Auf die Wahrheit kommt es an, und auf die Zuverlässigkeit kommt es an und auf die Ehrlichkeit.

Abwechslung ist des Lebens Reiz, eine Wahrheit, die freilich jede glückliche Ehe zu widerlegen scheint.

A curse on every wish that blurs the sight, paralyzes the tongue, cramps the hand, and prevents the truth being seen, said, and written.

Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion.

In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.