Quotes About Truth

Só não inicio pelo fim que justificaria o começo – como a morte parece dizer sobre a vida – porque preciso registrar os fatos antecedentes.

For her reality was too much to be believed.

One thing I do know: love, however violent, is pure. And that is how I have come to discover that I am not pure.

Sometimes only a lie can save you.

I am alone in the world and I don't believe in anyone, everyone lies, sometimes even when making love, I don't think one being speaks to another, the truth only comes to me when I'm alone.

?injenice su zvu?ne, ali izme?u njih postoji šapat.

No quiero tener la terrible limitación de quien vive sólo de lo que puede tener un sentido. Yo no: lo que quiero es una verdad inventada.

E - não esquecer que a estrutura do átomo não é vista mas sabe-se dela. Sei de muita coisa que não vi. E vós também. Não se pode dar uma prova da existência do que é mais verdadeiro, o jeito é acreditar. Acreditar chorando.

I am going to create what happened to me. Only because living isn't tellable. Living isn't livable. I shall have to create upon life. And without lying. Yes to creation, no to lying. Creation isn't imagination, it's running the huge risk of coming face to face with reality.

An eye looked over my life. I probably called that eye sometimes "truth", sometimes morality, sometimes human law, sometimes "God", sometimes "myself". For the most part I lived inside a mirror. Two minutes after I was born I had already lost my beginnings.

I don't want to have the terrible limitation of those who live merely from what can make sense. Not I: I want an invented truth.

é claro que a história é verdadeira embora inventada – que cada um a reconheça em si mesmo porque todos nós somos um e quem não tem pobreza de dinheiro tem pobreza de espírito ou saudade por lhe faltar coisa mais preciosa que ouro – existe a quem falte o delicado essencial.

Mi error, sin embargo, debía ser el camino de una verdad: pues sólo cuando me equivoco salgo de lo que conozco y de lo que entiendo. Si la "verdad" fuese aquello que puedo entender, terminaría siendo sólo una verdad pequeña, de mi tamaño

No soporté más y estoy confensando que ya sabía una verdad que nunca tuvo utilidad y aplicación, y que tendría miedo de aplicar, pues no soy lo bastante adulta para saber usar una verdad sin destruirme.

Sav?s nesuvokiantis individas geriau save realizuoja. Tiesa ar melas?

A verdade é sempre um contato interior inexplicável. A verdade é irreconhecível. Portanto não existe? Não, para os homens não existe.

The struggle to reach reality—that's the main objective of this creature who tries, in every way, to cling to whatever exists by means of a total vision of things. I meant to make clear too the way vision—the way of seeing, the viewpoint—alters reality, constructing it. A house is not only constructed with stones, cement etc. A man's way of looking constructs it too.

Aunque en el fondo no quisiera comprender. Sabía que aquello era imposible y todas las veces había pensado que si había comprendido era por haber comprendido mal. Comprender era siempre un error - prefería la vastedad amplia y libre y sin errores del no-entender. Era malo, pero, al menos, se sabía que se estaba en plena condición humana.

Truth doesn't make sense, the hugeness of the world makes me shrink. What I probably asked for and finally found still ended up leaving me unprepared, like a child walking alone across the earth. So unprepared that only my love of all the universe could console me and satisfy me, only a love such that the very egg-cell of things would resonate with what I call love. With what in fact I am merely naming without knowing its name.

We've been keeping our deaths a secret so as to make our lives possible.

What did I know about whatever it was that others obviously saw in me? how would I know if I went around with my stomach pressed into the dust of the ground. Truth has no witness? being isn't knowing? If a person doesn't look and doesn't see, does the truth exist anyway? The truth that doesn't transmit itself even to those who can see. Is that the secret of being a person?

Give me your hand. Because I no longer know what I'm saying. I think I made it all up, none of this existed! But if I made up what happened to me yesterday — who can guarantee that I didn't also invent my entire life prior to yesterday?

A God possessed of free will is lesser than a God with a single law. In the same way that a concept is all the more true when it need not transform itself when faced with every individual case. God's perfection is proven more by the impossibility of miracles than the possibility.

no soy lo bastante adulta para saber usar una verdad sin destruirme.