Quotes About Truth

Secrets, he had learned, were the very soil that sorrows grew most easily out of.

Some secrets were so dangerous that they should never be kept.

How can something get you thinking the wrong way, if you know how to think the right way?' Sammy asked.

In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.

I have defined poetry as a 'passionate pursuit of the Real.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

The feelings I don't have I don't have. The feelings I don't have, I won't say I have. The felings you say you have, you don't have. The feelings you would like us both to have, we neither of us have.

The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice.

Human desire is the criterion of all truth and all good. Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling. There is really nothing to fear. The motive of fear in religion is base...

The mighty question arises upon us, what is one's own real self? It certainly is not what we think we are and ought to be.

If you go back to that psychological document we call the New Testament, you'll find that it says the devil is 'the father of lies. Now the shadow never lies; it's the ego that lies about its real motives. That's why successful psychotherapy, and any genuine religious conversion, requires absolute honesty about oneself.

Lies About Love We are all liars, because The truth of yesterday becomes a lie tomorrow, Whereas letters are fixed, and we live by the letter of truth. The love I feel for my friend, this year, is different from the love I felt last year. If it were not so, it would be a lie. Yet we reiterate love! love! love! as if it were a coin with fixed value instead of a flower that dies, and opens a different bud.

What liars poets and everybody were! They made one think one wanted sentiment. When what one supremely wanted was this piercing, consuming, rather awful sensuality.

Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you're married and her name's Bertha

Art has two great functions. First, it provides an emotional experience. And then, if we have the courage of our own feelings, it becomes a mine of practical truth. We have had the feelings ad nauseam. But we've never dared dig the actual truth out of them, the truth that concerns us, whether it concerns our grandchildren or not.

I have a very great fear of love. It is so personal. Let each bird fly with its own wings, and each fish swim its own course.—Morning brings more than love. And I want to be true to the morning.

The human consistency and dignity one has been led to expect from one's fellow-men seem actually nonexistent

The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness.

She looked at his face, and she turned her own face to the wall. For his look was other than hers, his way was not her way. She had denied him what he was—she saw it now. She had refused him as himself.—And this had been her life, and his life.—She was grateful to death, which restored the truth.

The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.

Art-speech is the only truth.

I want to find you, where you don't know your own existence, the you that your common self denies utterly.

Of course he had been loving Gerald all along, and all along denying it.

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can grow wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes, and says, is always true.