Quotes About Truth

É verdadeiro o que se manifesta aos sentidos.

God … has no more significance for religion than a fundamental general principle has for … science[.]

Öteki dünya inanc? fantezinin hakikatine duyulan inançtan baÅŸka bir ÅŸey deÄŸildir, t?pk? tanr? inanc?n?n, insan?n duygu dünyas?n?n hakikatine ve sonsuzluÄŸuna olan inanç olmas? gibi. Ya da: Tanr? inanc?n?n, sadece insan?n soyut özüne duyulan inanç olmas? gibi, öteki dünya inanc? da sadece soyut bu dünya inanc?d?r.

Faith in the future life is … faith in the truth of the imagination, as faith in God is faith in the truth and infinity of human feeling. … [F]aith in God is only faith in the abstract nature of man, so faith in the heavenly life is only faith in the abstract earthly life.

Truth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred. Sacredness is, in fact, held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be seen as the highest degree of sacredness.

Love recognises virtue even in sin, truth in error. … [L]ove is free, universal, in its nature[.]

Y sin duda nuestro tiempo... prefiere la imagen a la cosa, la copia al original, la representación a la realidad, la apariencia al ser... lo que es 'sagrado' para él no es sino la ilusión, pero lo que es profano es la verdad. Mejor aún: lo sagrado aumenta a sus ojos a medida que disminuye la verdad y crece la ilusión, hasta el punto de que el colmo de la ilusión es también para él el colmo de lo sagrado

But for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, appearance to essence [...] truth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred. Sacredness is in fact held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to 'be the highest degree of sacredness.

Obedece aos sentidos! Onde começam os sentidos cessam a religião e a filosofia, mas em compensação a verdade simples e nua te é dada.

A] faith which does not believe what it fancies it believes[.]

the present age... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, appearance to essence... truth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred. Sacredness is, in fact, held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be seen as the highest degree of sacredness.

This philosophy] does not … regard the pen as the only fit organ for the revelation of truth, but the eye and ear, the hand and foot

T]hese days illusion only is scared, truth profane. … [S]acredness is held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to highest degree of sacredness. Religion has disappeared, … for it has been substituted … the appearance of religion[.]

God is the nature of man regarded as absolute truth, the truth of man; … God, or what is the same thing, religion, is as various as are the conditions under which man conceives his nature, … These conditions, then, under which man conceives God, are to him the truth, and for that reason they are also … existence itself.

Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.

Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.

Anyone who tells a lie has not pure heart, and cannot make good soup.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Whoever tells a lie is not pure of heart, and such a person can not cook a clean soup.

Doctrines which can stand the trial of logic and reason can do without persecuting skeptics.

More dangerous than bayonets and cannon are the weapons of the mind.

In science, compromise is a betrayal of truth.

Soñar despierto con un mundo "justo" que lo trataría de acuerdo con su "valor real" es el refugio de todos aquellos plagados de falta de autoconocimiento.

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.