Quotes About Truth

Das Ego des Menschen ist das falsche Ego; Gottes Ego ist das wahre Ego. Doch was ist das Ego? Das Ego ist Teil einer Linie: an einem Ende der Linie befindet sich Gottes Ego, am anderen das Ego des Menschen. Letzteres ist falsch, weil der Mensch sein Ego mit seinen Illusionen überdeckt hat, die er Ich-selbst nennt. Daher, wenn das Ego durch Liebe, Weisheit oder Meditation aufgelöst wird verfliegen die Wolken, die es bedeckten und das wahre Ego, Gottes Ego tritt in Erscheinung. (S. 176)

here is the nub of the issue between Christianity and postmodernism: what is freedom?

Christians ought to be troubled by the postmodern rejection of moral absolutes. But in responding, the first task is to get our own house in order.

postmoderns have lost faith in the idea of objective verification. Instead, they focus on the persuasive power of the stories we tell

Truth is stranger than fiction, which is why reality TV is so popular."

Flow can be found in so many things: Teaching, carving, exploring. Healing, writing, making right. Unearthing, interpreting, speaking truth. What is common between them is an exhilaration in the engagement, the challenge, and no guarantee of success.

Postmodernists have been at the leading edge of promoting the view that reality is socially constructed.

In each case, the belief is literally false, but metaphorically true.

This means that the cover story isn't true, but when people behave as if it were, they prosper.

One truth that emerges from understanding consciousness in this way is that it makes little sense to assume that individual consciousness evolved first, or that it is the most fundamental form of consciousness.

It is the pinnacle of arrogance to assume that whatever it is that "the experts" believe now is in fact the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Scientists have believed and public health officials have promoted many wrong things over the years, for both honorable, and not so honorable reasons. Sometimes the public health message is dead wrong.

Lie really could be construed as the art of illusion by some people.

God is my witness, Christ is my judge, life is to live, and living, love.

make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities,'" Hunter murmured.

you're told a lie often enough, that lie becomes not the truth, but a truth you can come to believe. However

it was imperative to preserve history—be it noble or ignoble. Truth and learning, in Frazier's mind, swayed the future. Lying about or hiding any event was wrong. Man could only learn through his mistakes.

Say it, Christa! Dammit, was I imagining things, or did you say that you loved me?" "I—" She paused. "I said it!" she whispered. "And you meant it?" She lowered her gaze and then her head. "I meant it.

You!" he said, pointing a finger at her. "I will never feel safe about you." "But—" "But! Will you miss me?" She moistened her lips. "Perhaps." His laughter was throaty. "It will pain me every second that I am away." "You are a liar!" she accused him. "It's God's truth." "Well, it's hard to tell. You do manage to keep your distance when you choose.

what's real doesn't always matter. What people think has been done to them can be just as serious as what really happened.

The truth was always out there, you just had to find it.

if we feel guilt, if we believe it in our own minds, that's what's true to us.

But here is what I tell my own daughters, when they start to place all of the magic outside of themselves, when they start to feel like some random dude owns the sun and the moon and the stars: The world has told you lies about how small you are.

Sometimes life isn't what you thought it would be it's just what it is.

I didn't want to hear that people lived happily ever after. I wanted to know that other people suffered, too.