Quotes About Truth

The world isn't just the way it is. It's how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?

Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths. As for nonfiction, for history, it may be real, but its truth is slippery, hard to access, with no fixed meaning bolted to it. If history doesn't become story, it dies to everyone except the historian.

Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now.

If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe? Don't you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?

The truth of life is that Brahman is no different from atman, the spiritual force within us, what you might call the soul.

Or rather, since Christians are so fond of capital letters, a Story.

Kau mungkin tidak percaya pada kehidupan, tapi aku tidak percaya pada kematian.

I concluded, that it was not a dream or a delusion or a misplaced memory or a fancy or any other falsity, but a solid, true thing witnessed while in a weakened highly agitated state.

If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for?

I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness

Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.

The holy word is story, and story is the holy word.

A világ nem egyszer?en olyan, amilyen. Olyan, amilyennek felfogjuk, nem? S azzal, hogy valamit felfogunk, valamit hozzá is teszünk, nem igaz? Nem válik-e ettÅ'l történetté az élet is?

That is Christianity at heart: a single miracle surrounded and sustained by stories, like an island surrounded by the sea.

Bapu Ghandi said, All religions are true. I just want to love God, I blurted out, and looked down, red in the face.

I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness.

If it happened, it happened. Why should it have to mean anything?

We are random animals. That is who we are, and we have only ourselves, nothing more-there is no greater relationship. Long before Darwin, a priest lucid in his madness encountered four chimpanzees on a forlorn island in Africa and hit upon a great truth: We are risen apes, not fallen angels.

The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? (p. 302)

The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?

You've got the wrong fellow. You may not believe in life, but I don't believe in death. Move on!

The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths.

People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. How ironic that you utilize a fixed glass structure as your command HQ. You use as a luminous building to symbolize that you are transparent, have nothing to hide, or suppress when in essence, concealing, omitting, and obscuring is your forte.