Quotes About Truth

Sta?o si? z nim to, co zawsze dzieje si? z lud?mi, którzy zwracaj? si? do wiedzy nie po to, ?eby odgrywa? w niej rol?: pisa?, dyskutowa?, uczy? innych, lecz zwracaj? si? do wiedzy z bezpo?rednimi, prostymi ?yciowymi pytaniami; nauka odpowiada?a mu na tysi?ce ró?nych bardzo trudnych i zawi?ych pyta?, tylko nie na te pytania, na które szuka? odpowiedzi.

Am I mad because I see what others do not, or are they mad that do these things that I see?

Cristo, el hijo de Dios, ha venido a la tierra y nos ha dicho que esta vida no es mas que un corto momento, una prueba, y, sin embargo, nos empeñamos en encontrar en el la felicidad

Tako ?ine rijetki snažni i dosljedni ljudi. Shvativši svu glupost šale kojoj su oni predmet i shvativši da su blaga umrlih ve?a od blaga živih te da je najbolje od svega ne postojati, tako i ?ine te smjesta završavaju s tom glupom šalom kojim god sredstvom: om?a oko vrata, voda, nož kojim probijaju srce, vlakovi na željezni?kim prugama.

To go, or not to go?' he asked himself; and his inner consciousness answered that he ought not to go: that it could only result in hypocrisy; that it was impossible to restore their relations because it was impossible to render her attractive and capable of exciting love, or to turn him into an old man incapable of love. Nothing except hypocrisy and falsehood could now result—and these were repugnant to his nature.

the one unmistakable, incontestable manifestation of the Divinity is the law of right and wrong, which has come into the world by revelation, and which I feel in myself,

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I don't want to play at life" I said, "But to live.

No one can attain to truth by himself. Only by laying stone on stone with the cooperation of all, by the millions of generations from our forefather Adam to our own times, is that temple reared which is to be a worthy dwelling place of the Great God,

Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal - had seemed to him all his life correct only as regards Caius, but not at all regards himself. In that case it was a question of Caius, a man, an abstract man, and it was perfectly true, but he was not Caius, and was not an abstract man; he had always been a creature quite, quite different from all the others.

The difference between what he had been then and what he now was, was enormous...Then he was free and fearless...now he felt himself caught in the meshes of a stupid, empty, valueless, frivolous life...He remembered how proud he was at one time of his straightforwardness, how he had made a rule of always speaking the truth...and he was now sunk deep in lies...lies considered as truth by all who surrounded him.

She had wit, she had grace, she had beauty; But above all, she had truth.

Give heed to the cause of the holy Roman Church, mother of all churches and teacher of the faith, whom you by the order of God, have consecrated by your blood. Against the Roman Church, you warned, lying teachers are rising, introducing ruinous sects, and drawing upon themselves speedy doom. Their tongues are fire, a restless evil, full of deadly poison. They have bitter zeal, contention in their hearts, and boast and lie against the truth.

Mentir ha llegado a ser una forma de espíritu. El honor ha perdido todo sentido, el honor del juramento, el honor a servir, el honor de morir. Se ríen de quienes se aferran todavía a esos viejos ritos. La virtud ha perdido su dulce canto de fuente. Las sonrisas no son ya los sentimientos del corazón, sino suspiros, estafas o rictus. Las almas se asfixian, el aire es pesado, cargado de todos los renunciamientos espirituales

If more and more people can be persuaded that the system of belief is correct, then clearly it must after all be correct.

We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.

In the meantime, the first characteristic of a really revolutionary party is -- to be able to look reality in the face.

I hear it said of somebody that he is leading a double life. I think to myself: Just two?

I also believe, along with Keats, that the Poetry of Earth is never dead, as long as Spring succeeds Winter, and man is there to perceive it....And finally, I believe that because all these things are true, Ives' Unanswered Question has an answer. I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I know the answer is Yes.

In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.

There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn't.

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded, Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed, Everybody knows that the war is over, Everybody knows the good guys lost.

It was a dance of masks and every mask was perfect because every mask was a real face and every face was a real mask so there was no mask and there was no face for there was but one dance in which there was but one mask but one true face which was the same and which was a thing without a name which changed and changed into itself over and over.

I raise my glass to the Awful Truth, Which you can't reveal to the Ears of Youth, Except to say it isn't worth a dime, And the whole damn place goes crazy twice, And it's once for the Devil and once for Christ