Quotes About Truth

But, oh Viv, right doesn't make might.

It's gonna burn me just that way, finally telling about all this, about the hospital, and her, and the guys- and about McMurphy. I been silent so long now it's gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling my God; you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is too awful to be truth! But, please. It's still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking about it. But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.

But it's the truth even if it didn't happen

The culture was constantly telling us one thing, and the realities of society were consistently failing to deliver it—the culture was lying. This was a deep and serious legitimation crisis: a culture that is consistently lying to its members simply cannot move forward for long.

Your "overall self" is your True Self (or Witness) plus your conventional, relative, finite self, and that finite self can be a false (inaccurate) or an authentic (accurate) self-concept. The choice is truly yours…

Aun en el caso de que usted aporte su propia interpretación individual sobre Hamlet —lo cual es absolutamente correcto—, esa interpretación estará arraigada en las realidades y los contextos de su vida real. ¡En cualquier caso, el hecho es que la interpretación no es algo meramente arbitrario!

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. —ALBERT EINSTEIN

Because the amazing fact is that truth alone will not set you free. Truthfulness will set you free.

even as it surreptitiously dipped into that dimension for its own hidden judgments, judgments which it forcefully and vehemently made and then flat-out denied making. "Empirical knowledge alone is true knowledge"—and where is the empirical proof for that?

Even science itself was held to be no more true than poetry. (Seriously.) There simply was no difference between fact and fiction, news and novels, data and fantasies. In short, there was "no truth" anywhere.

You have to know that there actually is a transcendental something, if you are going to free anybody from anything—if there is no beyond-the-given, there is no freedom from the given, and liberation is futile.

that which one can deviate from is not the true Tao.

No hay creación ni destrucción, Ni destino ni libre albedrío; Ni sendero ni realización; Ésta es la verdad final. SRI RAMANA MAHARSHI

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

All my life I have lied. I lied to escape, I lied to be loved, I lied for placement and power; I lied to lie. It was a way of living; lies are life's almost-anagram.

The fight for human rights is about speaking truth to power.

No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites.

Doing the right thing has power.

Do you want power over something? Be more nearly real than it.

Speak truth to power.

It is for the good of states that men should be deluded by religion.

There is a higher law than the Constitution.

I believe very confidently in the truth of Scripture, where it says that there is no authority, no power given to man except as given by God.

Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.