Quotes About Truth

I could never pretend something I didn't feel. I could never make love if I didn't love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes.

I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus.

But chiefly, no lies! No lies about there being a Santa Claus or about the world being full of noble and honorable people all eager to help each other and do good to each other. I'll tell her there are honor and goodness in the world, the same as there are diamonds and radium.

There are always two sides to every story.

to know reality (or things as they are than to have not to know and to have few illusions as possible— train my will now

The true things rarely get into circulation. It's usually the false things.

Nothing true can be said about God from a posture of defense.

Un sfert de via?? îl pierdem f?când leg?turi. Tot felul de leg?turi între idei, între fluturi, între lucruri ?i praf. Totul curge a?a de repede, ?i noi tot mai facem leg?turi între subiect ?i predicat. Trebuie s?-i d?m drum vie?ii, a?a cum ne vine exact, s? nu mai încerc?m s? facem leg?turi care nu ?in. De când spun cuvinte f?r? ?ir, simt c?-mi recuperez ani frumo?i din via??.

De aceea trebuie s? m? feresc de cei care par. Dau cu parul, cu p?rerea.

Then I woke up and the reality of the dream was stronger than the reality of the day.

Much later on, I read a statement of Bruce Nauman's: "Art is a matter of life and death." It sounds melodramatic, but it's so true. This was exactly how it was for me

you can tell the most terrible truths if you first open the human heart with humor.

It's not always the story of what happened to you. It's the story the judge wants to hear.

In my country we say that ignorance is the warm bath in which it is comfortable to sit but dangerous to lie down.

Nos da miedo preguntar porque nos da miedo saber.

Deny your nature and you stand naked before the danger with your eyes closed.

No poder comprobar hoy la existencia de algo no quiere decir que, necesariamente, no pueda existir.

Además de la confabulación, el hemisferio cerebral izquierdo utiliza otra estrategia que se llama proyección. Mediante esta estrategia proyectamos en otras personas aquellos rasgos que nosotros mismos tenemos y que no queremos ni reconocer ni por supuesto aceptar. Siempre es más fácil condenar a otros por sus errores que enfrentarse a la propia verdad, reconociendo los nuestros.

El gran filósofo y matemático francés del siglo XVII René Descartes escribió una carta al final de su vida en la que llamaba la atención un comentario singular: «Mi vida estuvo llena de desgracias, muchas de las cuales jamás sucedieron».

The more fake and commercialized the world gets, the more people respond to things that have a real core of truth. I believe that every human being is hardwired to recognize that. Whatever you choose to do with your life--whether it's running a company or cooking dinner--stand for something you know is true.

Qué feo eso de que le digan a uno la verdad, sobre todo si se trata de una de esas verdades que uno ha evitado decirse aun en los soliloquios matinales, cuando recién se despierta y murmura pavadas amargas, profundamente antipáticas, cargadas de autorrencor, a las que es necesario disipar antes de despertarse por completo y ponerse la máscara que, en el resto del día, verán los otros y verá a los otros.

me he vuelto culpable porque no hay otra manera de ser inocente

en todo lo cursi hay siempre un carozo de realidad

El arte jamás deja de ser una mentira; cuando es verdad, ya no es arte y aburre, porque la realidad es solo un irremediable absurdo hastío.