Quotes About Truth

Desde pequeño, ni siquiera tenía la menor idea de los sufrimientos de mi propia familia o de lo que pensaba. Sólo estaba bien al corriente de mis propios miedos y malestares. En algún momento, me convertí en un niño que nunca podía decir la verdad.

Jusqu'ici, j'ai vécu dans l'enfer. Dans le monde des humains, c'est la seule chose qui me semble vraie.

It is true, I suppose, that nobody finds it exactly pleasant to be criticised or be shouted at, but I see in the face of the human being raging at me a wild animal in its true colour, one more horrible than any lion, crocodile, or lion. People normally seem to be hiding his true nature, but an occasion will arise when anger makes them reveal in a flash human nature in all its horror.

Far from it, I felt convinced that their reprimands were without doubt voices of human truth speaking to me from eternities past; I was obsessed with the idea that since I lacked the strength to act in accordance with this truth, I might already have been disqualified from living among human beings.

I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind.

I find it difficult to understand the kind of human being who lives, or who is sure he can life, purely, happily, serenely while engaged in deceit.

Mi idea de alguien respetado consistía en una persona que había logrado engañar casi a la perfección a los demás pero que, al ser visto por un ser omnisciente e omnipotente, era humillado en una vergüenza peor que la muerte.

Por lo general, las personas no muestran lo terribles que son. (...) Basta que se dé la ocasión para que muestren su horrenda naturaleza.

I find it difficult to understand the kind of human being who lives, or who is sure he can live, purely, happily, serenely while engaged in deceit. Human beings never did teach me that abstruse secret.

Life is not some kind of play!

What separates us from insects? It's so stupid. I have lived and worked all my life never forgetting that everything is for the sake of Denmark, no matter what sad or painful things happen. But now I realize I am a fool. I have been deceived—by the late king, the present king, and even by Hamlet. They all have deceived me.

There is no insufferable, painful hell like that of deceiving people all the time.

The more naked a person's words are, the more comical, broken, and made-up they sound.

The man even says that he who exalts himself shall be humbled and he who humbles himself shall be exalted. Does anyone in the real world get away with such cajolery? Deceiver! I only believe in happiness in this world. I'm not afraid of any judgment hereafter.

Yalans?z bir hayat. Bu cümle zaten bir yaland?.

Lord Hamlet, maybe you alone are the evil one. You insert yourself where everyone is living peacefully and amicably, and you spout complex reasoning and attack everyone, making them suffer, saying that in this world only your love is pure and devoted.

The reason I can point out a person's evil nature is because I have that same evil nature within me

What you believe in is the pagan idol. God has words, as one would think. Think about it. The thing that first clearly alerted God's presence to us was what? It was words. It was the Gospels.

Nihayetinde, ya?amakta oldu?una göre, mutlaka bir hilen vard?r.

her halde, bir ?eyden emin olunabilir:?nsan, ya?amak için rol yapmak zorunda.

?lim ola?anüstüdür ancak pervas?zca davran?p ermi?li?iyle gösteri? yapmak korkakl?kt?r.

You may wish to give the name 'honesty' to what others would call dimwittedness, but leave it to such 'honest men' as yourselves to deceive the world with your fabulous dreams and superstitions.

La moral que nos inculcan en el instituto es muy distinta a la que rige en el mundo real.

The church must suffer for speaking the truth, for pointing out sin, for uprooting sin. No one wants to have a sore spot touched, and therefore a society with so many sores twitches when someone has the courage to touch it and say: "You have to treat that. You have to get rid of that. Believe in Christ. Be converted.