Quotes About Truth

Non fidatevi mai dell'artista. Fidatevi del racconto.

We must start from what seems a be a nullity, the unknowable, the inexpressible, the creative mystery wherein we are established. We cannot become more exact than this without introducing falsehood.

When Clifford became really roused in his feelings about the common people, Connie was frightened. There was something devastatingly true in what he said. But it was a truth that killed.

Ours is the universe of the unfolded rose, The explicit, The candid revelation.

Why do I like this so? Always something in his breast shrank from these close, intimate dazzled looks of hers. Why do you? he asked. I don't know - it seems so true.

Sufficient unto the moment is the appearanceof reality.

It was words, just so many words. The only reality was nothingness, and over it a hypocrisy of words.

If it be not true to me, What care I how true it be.. Though it be not true to thee, It's gay and gospel truth to me..

He had not the faintest knowledge what it really was, but he would never have sunk so low as to confess that to his womenfolk. They listened and believed him. He believed himself.

What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist

You pluck flower after flower — it is never the flower. The flower itself — its calyx is a horrible gulf, it is the bottomless pit.

What liars poets and everybody were!

There is love, and it is a deep thing, but there are deeper things than love. — D.H. Lawrence

If there weren't so many lies in the world ... I wouldn't write at all.

Death cannot create nor destroy. What is, is.

There is only one tree, there is only one fruit, in your mouth.

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle. Anger is blood, poured and perplexed into froth; but malice is the wisdom of our blood.

And out of a pattern of lies art weaves the truth.

But one truth does not displace another. Even apparently contradictory truths do not displace one another. Logic is far too coarse to make the subtle distinctions life demands.

There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God. We salute them as philosophers, while inexorably denouncing their philosophy. Let us go on.

Every half-truth at length produces the contradiction of itself in the opposite half-truth.

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, and must be left to the ancient worshippers of power, worship of Moloch. We do not worship power, in our enlightened souls. Power is degenerated to money and Napoleonic stupidity.

Men are less free than they imagine; ah, far lessfree. The freest are perhaps least free.

Whenever you look back and say if you know you're in trouble. There is no such thing as if. The only thing that matters is what really happened.