Quotes About Truth

There is no greater misery than false joys.

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world?

What, exactly, is the happiness that can be earned by turning away from reality?

What you're believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.

The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.

Unless we base our sense of identity upon the truth of who we are, it is impossible to attain true happiness.

[T]here is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.

There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.

The inspired Scriptures make the clear distinction between false and true riches and make plain the reason why happiness is gained and fully enjoyed only by those who find true riches.

The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.

Beyond happiness and unhappiness is truth. Truth is not affected by anything in the relative world. Truth is the unifying aspect of existence.

A happiness that won't stand up to examination is less than worthless.

Agency used righteously allows light to dispel the darkness and enables us to live with joy and happiness.

Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.

Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.

The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.

If we have no inner peace, we deceive ourselves into thinking that comfort and prosperity will bring happiness.

Emotion doesn't have to be happiness.

People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.

Only by working within the laws that govern the flow of water will happiness be achieved.

The root of things, what they were all afraid of saying, was that happiness is dirt cheap. You can have it for nothing. Beauty.

The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not feel and consent to yield to the general delusion.

I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is.