Quotes About Truth

In our existing political conditions, when everybody agrees about something, it is generally untrue.

Popular science tries to define realities, and then finds that the definition can be extended to any number of unrealities.

But the problem is that "inclusiveness" and "tolerance" are dogmas. It is not dogma that divides people. It is dogma that brings people together. The ultimate common bond is truth. That is why it is worth arguing about.

Changing the theology, changing the rules, does not bring freedom. Only truth brings freedom. And

In order to know the truth it is necessary to desire the truth, especially the truth that you do not know.

If truth is relative, to what is it relative?

We do not live in a truth-seeking age. We live in a pleasure-seeking age. With pleasure as our goal, we are destined for disappointment. "The very fury with which people go on seeking pleasure is a proof that they have not found it.

No matter what happens, always be yourself.

It's not so much that we are losing our identities, but rather that we are no longer embracing false identities. If we hold on to what once defined us, we will miss out on the authentic identity we are being called to.

Doubt everything. Find your own light." —Last words of Gautama Buddha, in Theravada tradition

idea that doubt is bad, that unquestioning acceptance is good, that there is only one possible right answer

Intellectual and ethical maturity can be measured in part by a person's willingness to engage in constant reflection on what he or she holds to be true and good.

The Bible is clear: amnesia produces apostasy.

Abner is not far from any one of us. We share an Abner-nature that harbors sin's stupidity, perversity, and twistedness. Let Abner preach to you. Let him tell you that it is possible to know the truth but not embrace the truth, to quote the truth but not submit to the truth, to hold the truth and yet assault the truth. And so Abner joins all the other anti-christs who strut around and say, 'I will be king' (1 Kings 1:5).

If what I study won't preach, there is something wrong with the way I study what I study.

Facts are the enemy of truth.

Maar sy kyk nie meer nuus nie. Sy lees ook nie meer koerant nie. Reg en verkeerd, waarheid en leuen is strome wat deurmekaar geloop het in een rivier, jy kry dit nie meer uitmekaar geskep nie.

E se me apaixonar perdidamente por ele, e mesmo assim ele vá embora daqui?) Nesse caso, você vai recolher os seus cacos, juntá-los novamente e prosseguir com sua vida. Mas, pelo menos , pode saber saber como é amar alguém de verdade.

We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.

Nobody but the dead know whether all these things people talk about are worth dying for or not. And the dead can't talk. So the words about noble deaths and sacred blood and honor and such are all put into dead lips by grave robbers and fakes who have no right to speak for the dead.

What the hell does liberty mean anyhow? It's just a word like house or table or any other word. Only it's a special kind of word. A guy says house and he can point to a house to prove it. But a guy says come on let's fight for liberty and he can't show you liberty. He can't prove the thing he's talking about so how in the hell can he be telling you to fight for it?

Nobody but the dead know whether all these things people talk about are worth dying for or not.

Then there was this freedom the little guys were always getting killed for. Was it freedom from another country? Freedom from work or disease or death? Freedom from your mother-in-law? Please mister give us a bill of sale on this freedom before we go out and get killed. Give us a bill of sale drawn up plainly in advance what we're getting killed for... so we can be sure after we've won your war that we've got the same kind of freedom we bargained for.

What the hell does liberty mean anyhow? It's just a word like house or table or any other word. Only it's a special kind of word. A guy says house and he can point to a house to prove it. But a guy says come on let's fight for liberty and he can't show you liberty. He can't prove the thing he is talking about so how in the hell can he be telling you to fight for it?