Quotes About Truth

TRUTH is the true victim today. Truth has become the politically incorrect "No-No" born from fear of government, school peer and/or family pressures and penalties, or just plain evasion, lying, cheating, and/or corruption-laden behavior on personal and business levels.

That man has always lied, to himself and to others, is indisputable. He has lied for the sheer fun of it—the fun of exercising this astounding gift of being able to "say what is not so," creating by his word a world for which he alone is responsible. Also, he has lied in self-defense: the lie is a weapon. It is the preferred weapon of the underdog and the weakling.

Trebuie s? ai un spirit pesimist; cel optimist e lamentabil, grotesc ?i stupid. "Gânde?te pozitiv!" Cum adic?, s? gândesc în mod deliberat fals, numai ca s? am o stare pozitiv?, care s? plac? cui ?i cui s? fac? un bine? Trebuie s? fii apt s? prive?ti realitatea exact a?a cum e, frumoas? sau pocit?.

Din pasiunea gratuita a cunoasterii, din obsesia adevarului, cei pe care ii pretuim ca oameni inteligenti se descurca de obicei mai prost in viata decat prostii si ajung uneori sa-si neglijeze interesele si chiar sa lucreze impotriva lor, pastrand, totusi, cum spuneam la inceput, loc destul pentru prostia propriu-zisa. Deci inteligenta nu e in fond decat o prostie heteronoma.

Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with.

Every man in the world is either a Realist or a Nominalist. Give yourself a test: if someone called you a gigger or a fell-picker, and you knew it wasn't true, would you hit him or smile? That's how easy it is to tell.

I tell myself and the officers I train the LANFWM principle, which is, Life Ain't No Fucking Western Movie.

The Dimensional box concept is used to entrap us, never believe that these are real or will ever be in reality.

The Dimensional box concept is used to entrap us, never believe they are real.

The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.

The Light Stays Bright When it doesn't Avoid the Shadow.

To live a life that matters, make the house, where Gods may dwell, there, in the temple of the soul we will not die an unlived life. we will not live in fear of falling there, the dark stars waiting with their light to draw the veil from truth.

We have no time, we have no space, we are questions that love answers, but the veil of truth don't lift. In the edge of abyss, people really meet themselves, when they're staring at nothingness, and then they understand that we are, birds of passage.

Whatever is decoded dies

People tell stories all the time: the stories they want told, where any story could be changed or warped this way or that.

But...even true stories have to be invented sometimes to be remembered.

A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.

Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.

It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.

Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even murder with the truth.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.