Quotes About Truth

Life is not stationary, nor can be. The living body is forever changing by the ceaseless vibrations of the life within. The mental powers are forever built up or depleted by the thoughts that flow from them, and the truth that is discovered by them, and that reacts upon them.

They were all living right where they said they would to be.

He liked her stories for the same reason she told them—they should have happened.

thought she was his beard, but she was

They sent her to the fourteenth floor, which Elle knew was always the thirteenth mislabeled for the people whose idea of the borderline between reality and nonsense was flexible.

Holy shit! It wasn't them; it was him!

Alcohol makes you less inhibited.' I said, 'I'm not inhibited, I just don't like you enough to want to do anything with you.' I guess alcohol makes you more honest too.

The way of objective reflection makes the subject accidental, and thereby transforms existence into something indifferent, something vanishing. Away from the subject the objective way of reflection leads to the objective truth, and while the subject and his subjectivity become indifferent, the truth also becomes indifferent, and this indifference is precisely its objective validity; for all interest, like all decisiveness, is rooted in subjectivity

While the supreme value of existentialist thought is commonly acknowledged to be freedom, its primary virtue is authenticity.

primary purpose of this book is to explore the connection between knowledge, science, and belief in God.

I no way doubt but that many men do receive more grace from God than they understand or will own, and have a greater efficacy of it in them than they will believe. Men may be really saved by that grace which doctrinally they do deny; and they may be justified by the imputation of that righteousness, which, in opinion, they deny to be imputed: for the faith of it is included in that general assent which they give unto the truth of the gospel,

Now we shall possess a right definition of faith if we call it a firm and certain knowledge of God's benevolence toward us, founded upon the truth of the freely given promise in Christ, both revealed to our minds and sealed upon our hearts through the Holy Spirit.

We guard the truth because we cherish it, and we cherish the truth because it is our life. When

We have seen that the early church fathers didn't have clarity on justification by faith alone. At the same time, they didn't blatantly deny the truth as Trent did. It is one thing to be fuzzy or inconsistent regarding a truth in the Scriptures, but it is quite another thing to explicitly deny it altogether. Neuhaus

Let scholastic sophisters entangle themselves in their own cobwebs; I am resolved to take my own existence, and the existence of other things, upon trust; and to believe that snow is cold, and honey sweet, whatever they may say to the contrary. He must either be a fool, or want to make a fool of me, that would reason me out of my reason and senses.

I confess I know not what a sceptic can answer to this, nor by what good argument he can plead even for a hearing; for either his reasoning is sophistry, and so deserves contempt; or there is no truth in the human faculties, and then why should we reason?

Every man feels that he must believe what he distinctly remembers, though he can give no other reason of his belief, but that he remembers the thing distinctly.

And a man who perfectly understood a just syllogism, without believing that the conclusion follows from the premises, would be a greater monster than a man born without hands or feet.

Human beings cannot stand too much reality.

May I share with you a formula that in my judgment will help you and help me to journey well through mortality... First, fill your mind with truth; second, fill your life with service; and third, fill your heart with love.

What is more frightening than any particular policy or ideology is the widespread habit of disregarding facts

Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth — anonymously and posthumously.

Journalists cannot serve two masters. To the extent that they take on the task of suppressing information or biting their tongue for the sake of some political agenda, they are betraying the trust of the public and corrupting their own profession.