Quotes About Truth

The idea is not to regard the spiritual path as something very luxurious and pleasurable but to see it as just facing the facts of life.

Self-deception is a constant problem as we progress along a spiritual path. Ego is always trying to achieve spirituality. It is rather like wanting to witness your own funeral.

The Heart Sutra ends with "the great spell" or mantra. It says in the Tibetan version: "Therefore the mantra of transcendent knowledge, the mantra of deep insight, the unsurpassed mantra, the unequalled mantra, the mantra which calms all suffering, should be known as truth, for there is no deception." The potency of this mantra comes not from some imagined mystical or magical power of the words but from their meaning. It

At first, the mountains are mountains and streams are streams. Then, the mountains are not mountains and streams are not streams. But in the end, mountains are mountains again and streams are streams again.

such understanding might be extremely boring. Also, such understanding might include seeing some things you don't want to see.

You should absolutely and completely stop all six of those misinterpretations.

Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.

Be courageous enough to be honest.

Les humains non plus ne peuvent changer le passé ; souvent ils le falsifient, le conjecturent, le concoctent, parfois le réinventent, l'imaginent et, au mieux, le racontent.

Truth has to be given in riddles. People can't take truth if it comes charging at them like a bull. The bull is always killed. You have to give people the truth in a riddle, hide it so they go looking for it and find it piece by piece; that way they learn to live with it.

I will go wherever the truth leads me. It is secular scholarship, Rebbe; it is not the scholarship of tradition. In secular scholarship there are no boundaries and no permanently fixed views." Lurie, if the Torah cannot go out into your world of scholarship and return stronger, then we are all fools and charlatans. I have faith in the Torah. I am not afraid of truth.

Never believe the wicked though they are sweet tongued. The honey is only in the tip of their tongue–the heart is full of venom.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

The earth is supported by the power of truth it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow indeed all things rest upon truth.

For at some point, each of us will be asked to embody what we feel and know.

The truth, finally, is who can tell it.

Gods are fragile things they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

ATHEIST is really a thoroughly honest, unambiguous term, it admits of no paltering and no evasion, and the need of the world, now as ever, is for clear-cut issues and unambiguous speech.

Science gives up to religion that which cannot be known, and as it does not know what it is, that cannot be known, it surrenders to religion absolute vacuity as the proper sphere for its operations.

There is no exception to the fact that men have everywhere come to the conclusion that the earth was flat, and yet a wider and truer knowledge proved that universal belief to be quite false. The fact of a certain belief being universal only warrants the assumption that the belief itself has a cause, but it tells us nothing whatever concerning its truthfulness.

Each stage of theistic belief grows out of the preceding stage, and if it can be shown that the beginning of this evolution arose in a huge blunder I quite fail to see how any subsequent development can convert this unmistakable blunder into a demonstrable truth.

Sometimes when you're upset it's so easy to forget what's real and go for what makes you feel better. (131)

My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'.

My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'.