Quotes About Truth

A secret to which truth has always initiated her lovers, and through which they have learned that it is in hiding that she offers to them most truly.

If a man who thinks he is a king is mad, a king who thinks he is a king is no less so.

Çünkü gerçeÄŸin ay?rt edici özelliÄŸi hayal edilemez olmas?d?r. (...) EÄŸer gerçek diye bir kavram varsa, son derece komplekstir ve bir bütün oluÅŸturacak ÅŸekilde kavranmas? imkans?zd?r.

The real is what resists symbolization absolutely.

I always speak the truth. Not the whole truth, because there's no way, to say it all. Saying it all is literally impossible: words fail. Yet it's through this very impossibility that the truth holds onto the real.

Even if what a jealous husband claims about his wife (that she sleeps around with other men) is all true, his jealousy is still pathological.

A secret to which truth has always initiated her lovers, and through which they have learned that it is in hiding that she offers herself to them most truly.

It is only true inasmuch as it is truly followed.

My thesis is that the moral law is articulated with relation to the real as such, to the real insofar as it can be the guarantee of the Thing.

Two truths: the first of these is that joy does not come from outside, for whatever happens to us it is within. The second truth is that light does not come to us from without. Light is in us, even if we have no eyes.

We do not need a truth to serve us, we need a truth that we can serve

The sole philosophy open to those who doubt the possibility of truth is absolute silence -- even mental.

The spiritual experience of the philosopher is the nourishing soil of philosophy; that without it there is no philosophy; and that, even so, spiritual experience does not, or must not, enter into the intelligible texture of philosophy. The pulp of the fruit must consist of nothing but the truth.

poézia je nutná práve do tej miery, nako?ko je neužito?ná a slobodná, pretože ?u?om prináša zjavenie skuto?nosti mimo skuto?nos?, skúsenos? skrytých významov vecí, tajomné spolo?enstvo so svetom krásy, bez ktorého ?udia nemôžu ani ži?, ani vies? mravný život.

?lovek si musí teda sám pre seba ur?i?, ktoré najvyššie dobro je jeho š?astím. musí si zvoli? svoje š?astie, alebo teda najvyššie dobro, a osud jeho mravného života závisí na tom, ?i jeho vo?ba je alebo nie je v zhode s tým, ?o v takom prípade požaduje pravda

Dobro znam da mi jedino istina može dati radost i slobodu.

What is true for E. coli is also true for the elephant.

Le vieux Hemingway énonçait une règle très simple: l'écrivain devait toujours s'en tenir aux sujets qu'il connaissait le mieux.

Le malheur avait mis les habits du mensonge Ils étaient d'un beau rouge couleur du sang du cœur Mais son cœur à lui était gris Penché sur la margelle il me chantait l'amour Sa voix grinçait comme la poulie Et moi dans mon costume de vérité je me taisais et je riais et je dansais au fond du puits Et sur l'eau qui riait aussi la lune brillait contre le malheur la lune se moquait de lui.

il étouffe - le monde se couche sur lui - et l'étouffe - il est prisonnier - coincé par ses promesses … on lui demande des comptes … En face de lui … une machine à compter - une machine à écrire des lettres d'amour - une machine à souffrir - le saisit … s'accroche à lui … Pierre dis-moi la vérité

Poetic language that knows itself as such doesn't contradict reason. On the contrary, it reminds each speaking subject not to take the narrative of his mind's adventures for the voice of truth. Every speaking subject is the poet of himself and of things. Perversion is produced when the poem is given as something other than a poem, when it wants to be imposed as truth, when it wants to force action.

Il y a deux mensonges fondamentaux: celui qui proclame 'je dis la vérité' et celui qui affirme 'je ne peux pas dire.

Le réel doit être fictionné pour être pensé.

And of the fact that every vision of the past is a vision of the blind