Quotes About Truth

What the first Seer found and recorded thousands of years ago, the last Seer finds and agrees with today. But what the first scientist of the nineteenth century found and recorded, the last scientist of today laughs at and flings aside. The

What is the key to the Short Path? It is threefold. First, stop searching for the Overself since it follows you wherever you go. Second, believe in its Presence, with and within you. Third, keep on trying to understand its truth until you can abandon further thoughts about it. You cannot acquire what is already here. So drop the ego's false idea and affirm the real one.

So the first Seers, watching the wanderings of thought within their own minds, discovered that there was something which came into action when thinking momentarily stopped. That Something was the first faint intimation of the soul. Thus the science of soul-discovery was born and the ancients began to teach men how to know the truth about themselves. In

we are now as divine as we ever shall be—but we must wake up from illusion and see this truth.

Life remains what it is--deathless and unbound. We shall all meet again. Know what you are, and be free. The best counsel today is, keep calm, aware. Don't let the pressure of mental environment break into what you know and what is real and ultimately true. This is your magic talisman to safeguard you; cling to it. The last word is--Patience! The night is darkest before dawn. But dawn comes.

O, when I am safe in my sylvan home, I tread on the pride of Greece and Rome; And when I am stretched beneath the pines, Where the evening star so holy shines, I laugh at the lore and the pride of man, At the sophist schools and the learned clan; For what are they all, in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet. —Ralph Waldo Emerson.

These Words of Jesus speaks the Truth that God put John the Baptist here as the representative of all of humankind, and also had him baptize Jesus. As Jesus was bearing witness of John the Baptist He said, "Why did you go out into the wilderness?

The Bible clearly writes and bears witness about John the Baptist of this fact.

Jesus, whoever now believes in this Truth can receive the remission of sins. By him having borne witness to 'the gospel of the atonement for sins,' where he passed-on all the sins of the world onto the Lord, many people have been able to received salvation from sin by believing and having faith in this Truth of salvation because of John's witness.

Those of you who from now on know the gospel of the water and the Spirit, understand it and believe in it with the heart are all righteous.

If you were to resist this incredible blessing, it would be like refusing all the plans of God in its entirety, and you would have by doing this become a wicked child, stubbornly refusing the Truth with your own mind.

My countenance in my old-age does injustice to my heart. John Quincy Adams

Ambition distorts even memory itself. John Quincy Adams

The single greatest cultural contribution of postmodernity is that it eliminates the presumption of intellectual neutrality that modernity automatically associated with skeptical rationalism. (...) It shows, not that truth is socially constructed, but that the uniquely human act of bearing witness to the truth is always a moral as well as an intellectual or empirical or noetic act.

The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

Alcoholism is the one illness that tells you, you don't have it

for although he is said to be a liar from the beginning, not one case is known, in all devil-lore in which the Devil attempts to cheat his stipulators. Thus he appears as the most unfairly maligned person, and as a martyr of simple-minded honesty.

Symbols are not lies; symbols contain truth. Allegories and parables are not falsehoods; they convey information: moreover, they can be understood by those who are not as yet prepared to receive the plain truth.

What times are these when a conversation is almost a crime because it includes so much made explicit?

U izvoru tvojih o?iju more drži svoju rije?. Ja ondje bacam srce koje je boravilo kod ljudi.

Yes, me, I prefer the hourglass so you can smash it when I tell you of eternity's lie —Paul Celan, "[Blinded by giant leaps]," Romanian Poems (Green Integer, 2003)

Ich kenne dich, du bist die tief Gebeugte, ich, der Durchbohrte, bin dir untertan. Wo flammt ein Wort, das für uns beide zeugte? Du—ganz, ganz wirklich. Ich—ganz Wahn.)

Have the courage to analyze great emotions to create characters who shall be lofty and true. The whole art of the analytical novel lies there.