Quotes About Truth

Ogni mediazione proietta un suo miraggio; i miraggi si susseguono come altrettante "verità" che subentrino alle verità anteriori come una vera e propria uccisione del ricordo vivente e si proteggano dalle verità future con una censura implacabile dell'esperienza quotidiana. Marcel Proust chiama "Io" i "mondi" proiettati dalle successive mediazioni. Gli Io sono perfettamente isolati gli uni dagli altri, incapaci di rammentarsi degli Io passati o di presagire gli Io futuri.

Kahraman, gururun aldat?c? ilah?ndan vazgeçerek kölelikten kurtulur ve sonunda mutsuzlu?un hakikatine eri?ir. Bu vazgeçi?, yarat?c? vazgeçi?ten ay?rt edilemez. Romant?ik bir yazar? gerçek romanc? yapan metafizik arzuyu yenmesidir.

If the Gospels were mythical themselves, they could not provide the knowledge that demythologizes mythology.

When Jesus says something that seems banal, it is necessary to be wary.

The profane sciences of which the modern world is so proud are really and truly only the degenerate 'residues' of the ancient traditional sciences.

Those who might be tempted to give way to despair should realize that nothing accomplished in this order can ever be lost, that confusion, error and darkness can win the day only apparently and in a purely ephemeral way, that all partial and transitory disequilibrium must perforce contribute towards the greater equilibrium of the whole, and that nothing can ultimately prevail against the power of truth.

True ideas do not change or develop, but remain as they are in the timeless 'present.

Modern man, instead of attempting to raise himself to truth, seeks to drag truth down to his own level.

We cannot help noticing that, like all propagandists, the apostles of tolerance, truth to tell, are very often the most intolerant of men.

Cela n'autorise-t-il pas à dire que la suprême habileté du diable, de quelque façon qu'on le conçoive, c'est de faire nier son existence ?

Du reste, il est à remarquer que les philosophes disent souvent des choses beaucoup plus justes quand ils argumentent contre d'autres philosophes que quand ils en viennent à exposer leurs propres vues, et chacun voyant généralement assez bien les défauts des autres, ils se détruisent en quelque sorte mutuellement

The "end of a world" never is and never can be anything but the end of an illusion.

Il est à peine besoin de dire, après cela, que le Taoïsme est particulièrement mal compris : on s'imagine y trouver toute sorte de choses, excepté la doctrine purement métaphysique qu'il est essentiellement en réalité…

His (Guénon's) motto was vincit omnia veritas, "Truth conquers all", but implicitly his motto was "Seek and ye shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you". Implicit in his writings is the certainty that they will come providentially to those who are qualified to receive his message and they will impel them to seek and therefore to find a way.

mieux vaut, pour la renommée d'un philosophe, inventer une erreur nouvelle que de redire une vérité qui a déjà été exprimée par d'autres.

The same can be said of the true science of num- bers, for the principial numbers, though they must be referred to as numbers by analogy, are situated relatively to our world at the pole opposite to that at which are situated the numbers of common arithmetic; the latter are the only numbers the moderns know, and on them they turn all their attention, thus taking the shadow for the reality, like the prisoners in Plato's cave.

la dialectique contient souvent chez lui [Platon] une certaine part de « jeu », ce qui est très conforme à la mentalité grecque, mais, quand il l'abandonne pour le mythe, on peut être sûr que le jeu a cessé et qu'il s'agit de choses ayant en quelque façon un caractère « sacré ».

L'Histoire vraie peut être dangereuse pour certains intérêts politiques, et on est en droit de se demander si ce n'est pas pour cette raison que certaines méthodes, en ce domaine, sont imposées officiellement à l'exclusion de toutes les autres: consciemment ou non, on écarte a priori tout ce qui permettrait de voir clair en bien des choses, et c'est ainsi que se forme l'"opinion publique".

assurément, des aveugles seraient tout aussi bien fondés à nier l'existence de la lumière et à en tirer prétexte pour se vanter d'être supérieurs aux hommes normaux !

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us. This interest can take the form of a quite intense feeling, a sort of conflict, one might say, between the visible that is hidden and the visible that is present.

We are surrounded by curtains. We only perceive the world behind a curtain of semblance. At the same time, an object needs to be covered in order to be recognized at all.

What he imagines evokes nothing imaginary, it evokes the reality of the world that experience and reason treat in a confused manner.

Authenticity inspires. Just be real

Be careful not to censor yourself to fit a certain situation or group of people. When we start to censor ourselves we can easily censor ourselves right out of our lives.