Quotes About Truth

It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth—penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words, beyond images

lies are what the world lives on, and those who can face the challenge of a truth and build their lives to accord are finally not many, but the very few.

The ultimate experience of love is a realization that beneath the illusion of two-ness dwells identity.

And then they eat the apple, the knowledge of the opposites.

The crux of the curious difficulty lies in the fact that our conscious views of what life ought to be seldom correspond to what life really is.

the labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.

is there not some point of wisdom beyond the conflicts of illusion and truth by which lives can be put back together again? That is a prime question, I would say, of this hour in the bringing up of children.

The idea of Truth with capital T-that there is something called Truth that's beyond the range of the relativity of the human mind trying to think-is what I call the error of the found truth. The trouble with all of these damned preachers is the error of the found truth. When they get that tremolo in the voice and tell you what God has said, you know you've got a faker.

Tienes que distinguir entre razón y pensamiento. Pensar como puedes echar abajo la pared no es razonar (...) La razón tiene que ver con hallar el fundamento del ser y la estructuración fundamental del orden del universo.

Myth is much more important and true than history.

Joseph Campbell

Joseph Campbell

And so what then happens to the children of a society that has refused to allow any such interplay to develop, but, clinging to its inherited dream as to a fixture of absolute truth, rejects the novelties of consciousness, of reason, science, and new facts?

He who tells the truth will lose friends. A Wise Man

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.

Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects or schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.

Hope lies to mortalsAnd most believe her,But man's deceiverWas never mine.

When I was one-and-twentyI heard him say again,"The heart out of the bosomWas never given in vain;'Tis paid with sighs aplentyAnd sold for endless rue."And I am two-and-twenty,And Oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.

The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.

Don't turn your back upon your doctrinal doubts and difficulties. Go up to them and examine them. Perhaps the ghastly object which looks to you in the twilight like a sheeted ghost may prove to be no more than a table-cloth hanging upon a hedge.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons.

It was one of the marks of sentience, the ability to distinguish reality from fantasy and still indulge in fantasy. In other words: I lied, therefore I thought.

What is it that demands an answer but never asks a question?