Quotes About Truth

Tarih, var olmuÅŸ olan bir ÅŸeyden söz eder; oysa bir var olan baÅŸka bir var olan?n varoluÅŸunu hakl? ç?karamaz.

Un crime que son auteur ne peut supporter, ce n'est plus le crime de personne

A la vérité, il forçait un peu sur le sublime : c'était un homme du XIXe siècle qui se prenait, comme tant d'autres, comme Victor Hugo lui-même, pour Victor Hugo.

DoÄŸrular, doÄŸru haline gelirler ve önemli olan da onlar? buna ulaÅŸt?ran yoldur, buna ulaÅŸmak için kendi üzerinde ve baÅŸkalar?yla birlikte yap?lan çal??mad?r. Bu çal??ma olmadan, bir doÄŸru ancak doÄŸru bir hata olabilir.

Mi sento pieno di malanimo vero questo piccolo presuntuoso così bugiardo; può darsi che sia dispetto: ero felice che mentisse agli altri ma avrei voluto che facesse un'eccezione per me: credevo che ci saremmo messi d'accordo come ladri in fiera sopra la testa di tutti questi morti e che avrebbe finito per dirla, a me, la verità!

At the age of twenty, without experience or advice, my mother was torn between two moribund creatures. Her marriage of convenience found its truth in sickness and mourning... Upon the death of my father, Anne-Marie and I awoke from a common nightmare. I got better. But we were both victims of a misunderstanding: she returned lovingly to the child she had never left; I regained consciousness in the lap of a stranger.

Now I knew: things are entirely what they appear to be—and behind them . . . there is nothing.

Nommer c'est montrer et [...] montrer c'est changer.

This is what I have to avoid, I must not put in strangeness where there is none.

I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.

The point is to wake up, not to earn a Ph.D. In waking up.

I don't have something you don't; you believe something I don't.

Enlightenment is the unprogrammed state.

The bottom line remains the same: you're either awake or you're not.One day, there it is. Nothing. No more enemies, no more battles.

The you that you think of as you (and that thinks of you as you, and so on) is not you, it's just the character that the underlying truth of you is dreaming into existence. Enlightenment isn't in the character, it's in the underlying truth.

Once you start seeing this place for the madhouse it is, you can't stop seeing it that way. It's everywhere, everyone. It doesn't make any sense. That's not life. It can't be. I don't know what it is, but it's not life.

The price of truth is everything, but no one knows what everything means until they're paying it.

The end of illusion is the end of you.   U.G. Krishnamurti

When we believe in the world outside of ourselves, gain is often perceived as good and loss as bad. When we stop believing in a world external to self. that reverses: gain becomes bad and loss becomes good. Nothing we can lose was ever ours in the first place. All we can ever lose is illusion.

an undecidable presence-absence at the origin of meaning.

This strikes at the very roots of Western metaphysics, because it's the claim to full presence which underpins metaphysical concepts and procedures.

incorrect assumptions keep us from seeing the correct answer.

Hope is for people who can't see the Truth.

my conscience has the same hard reality as a unicorn.