Quotes About Truth

Los lubi chodzi? krÄ™tymi drogami. Obwiniamy go w pierwszej chwili, ?e skÅ'amaÅ', z czasem zaÅ› okazuje siÄ™, ?e mówiÅ' prawdÄ™.

La superstition est plus injurieuse à Dieu que l'athéisme.

Scepticismul este primul pas spre adev?r.

If we love truth more than the fine arts, let us pray to God for some iconoclasts.

Engullimos de un sorbo la mentira que nos adula y bebemos gota a gota la verdad que nos amarga.

Who said it? – probably Confucius – "I can't beat a sculpture from a stone with a sledgehammer; I can't free the soul of man by violence." Peace was here, peace was now. Peace promised in any other time or place was a lie.

eventually these encounters forced him to acknowledge the reality of fate, and the truth inherent in things of the imagination.

It was all right to be who he was, but others would probably think it was terrible. A couple of times in the past he'd reached this absolute zero of the truth, and without fear or bitterness he realized now that somewhere inside it there was a move he could make to change his life, to become another person, but he'd never be able to guess what it was.

Is that why I went wild over her? Because once I saw her truly? Is devotion as simple as that?

All night the dreamer travels in this region and doesn't realize he's asleep. The differences between the logic of that world and the logic of this waking one are vast. But they feel the same. And isn't that how we recognize logic, by the way it feels?

To find the people who've became truly sane, seek among those who've managed to do without sanity.

What I don't think has been talked about is the fact that in order to be Hell, the people in Hell could never be sure they were really there.

Meaning can't change from person to person, and still be true

My father is dead! As soon as he'd said it, Fiskadoro saw he'd made it true again--again for the first time. Did it just go around and around? He began to see that his sorrow wasn't simple. It wasn't one thing, but a thousand things carrying him away to the Ocean: the work of a person's life was to drink it.

He'd come to war to see abstractions become realities. Instead he'd seen the reverse. Everything was abstract now.

There's been a lie told. I've told it. I'm going to let the truth reclaim me. If I can't survive that process, so be it.

Well, it's very much for each person to experience alone," he said, and whatever truth he meant to get at, his eyes were the visible scars of it.

I know everything." Heinz sputtered and fumed somewhat like an automobile himself, and said, "I'm God!" Grainier thought about how to answer. Here seemed a conversation that could go no farther.

whatever truth he meant to get at, his eyes were the visible scars of it.

There's nothing wrong with me"—I'm surprised I let those words out. But it's always been my tendency to lie to doctors, as if good health consisted only of the ability to fool them.

I've masqueraded as a literary critic, and with a great deal more success, but criticism isn't real—it's not a real thing.

But every time I entered the place there were veiled faces promising everything and then clarifying quickly into the dull, the usual, looking up at me and making the same mistake.

Make this moment the moment of truth about yourself. You have been selling short all of your life.

My uncle's death confirmed a suspicion of mine that madness and religion were a hair's breadth away.