Quotes About Truth

We all know that art is not truth. Art is the lie that makes us realise the truth

What is right, in the end, is not always what it seems to be, and some rules are better broken.

La giustizia è un robot senza cuore nè intelligenza: colpisce a seconda della carica che ha avuto. E la carica è costituita dalle prove.

Le modèle productiviste sur lequel repose l'organisation du monde moderne est absurde! Prétendre que l'on peut continuer dans cette voie et satisfaire aux besoins de chaque être humain sur cette base est aberrant et mensonger.

poems are] crystals deposited after the effervescent contact of the spirit with reality. (cristaux deposes apres l'effervescent contact de l'esprit avec la realite)

So many things which once had distressed or revolted him — the speeches and pronouncements of the learned, their assertions and their prohibitions, their refusal to allow the universe to move — all seemed to him now merely ridiculous, non-existent, compared with the majestic reality, the flood of energy, which now revealed itself to him: omnipresent, unalterable in its truth, relentless in its development, untouchable in its serenity, maternal and unfailing in its protectiveness.

In the end, only the truth will survive.

It is the destiny of things real to destroy those that are artifice.

What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of courage. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but in expressing them correctly; and we can now see that it is biologically undeniable that unless we harness passion to the service of spirit there can be no progress. Sooner or later, then, and in spite of all our incredulity, the world will take this step— because the greater truth always prevails and the greater good emerges in the end.

If a thing could not be accomplished honestly, probably it wasn't worth accomplishing at all.

It was said that familiarity bred contempt, but surely ignorance bred error.

Your teacher didn't lie to you. A centaur never lies. He merely edited his information, on orders from the King, so as not to force on the impressionable minds of children things their parents did not want them to hear. Education has ever been thus.

Masonry, like all the Religions, all the Mysteries, Hermeticism and Alchemy, conceals its secrets from all except the Adepts and Sages, or the Elect, and uses false explanations and misinterpretations of its symbols to mislead those who deserve only to be misled; to conceal the Truth, which it calls Light from them and to draw them away from it. p.104-5

La Vita o si vive o si scrive

Ciascuno vuole imporre agli altri quel mondo che ha dentro, come se fosse fuori, e che tutti debbano vederlo a suo modo, e che gli altri non possano esservi se non come li vede lui.

O que de pior acontece a qualquer pessoa é tornar-se inimigo da palavra

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have.

How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?

Books are immortal sons defying their sires.

Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

He was a wise man who invented God.