Quotes About Truth

Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.

Beware, as long as you live, of judging people by appearances.

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.

Il ouvre un large bec, laisse tomber sa proie. Le Renard s'en saisit, et dit : "Mon bon Monsieur, Apprenez que tout flatteur Vit aux dépens de celui qui l'écoute : Cette leçon vaut bien un fromage, sans doute.

Quand l'abÅ¿urde eÅ¿t outré, on lui fait trop d'honneur De vouloir par raiÅ¿on, combattre Å¿on erreur: Enchérir eÅ¿t plus court, Å¿ans s'échauffer la bile.

Tout flatteur vit aux dépens de celui qui l'écoute.

Lai??ez dire les ?ots, le ?avoir a ?on prix.

Whoever has this Gnosis...takes what is his and restores it to himself. By Gnosis, a man knows 'whence he has come and whither he is going.

Oricine ?tie c? eviden?ele ascund întotdeauna sisteme. Nimic nu e mai p?rtinitor decât impar?ialitatea.

Cum reu?e?te adev?rul s? se desprind? din aparen?ele care îl ascund ?i totodat? îl constituie? Izbucne?te, într-o seara, cu brutalitate? Sau î?i croie?te drum încet în mintea oamenilor?

la science d'aujourd'hui détruit l'ignorance d'hier et elle fera figure d'ignorance au regard de la science de demain. Dans le cœur des hommes il y a un élan vers autre chose qu'un savoir qui ne suffira jamais à expliquer un monde dont la clé secrète est ailleurs

Pe bun? dreptate se spunea c? ideile î?i croise drum printre oameni.

Ce-ar fi putut face, ?i unul ?i cel?lalt, cu libertatea de gândire? ?i cu toleran?a? Fiindc?, ?i unul ?i cel?lalt, se considerau de?in?tori ai adev?rului.

Libertatea este o chestiune de metod?. Adev?rul punea cu totul alte probleme. Cred c? n-a? putea s? m? exprim mai bine decât folosind un cuvânt cam provocator, adev?rul eram noi.

universul nostru era dominat de o idee, ?i poate numai de una, dar ea ne f?cea s? ne sim?im foarte siguri pe noi. For?a acestei idei venea în totalitate din simplitatea ei. ?i anume c? lucrurile sunt ceea ce sunt.

Descopeream c? lumea avea multe înf??i??ri care se negau una pe cealalt? ?i c? nu era nimic altceva decât un m?nunchi de puncte de vedere reciproce care se cuprindeau succesiv.

To exaggerate is to weaken.

Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.

Would it perturb you to see things as they are? To gaze at the world tranquilly and accept responsibility for your gaze, whatever it might see?

You must now go home, where everything -- you can be quite sure -- will be falser than here....You must go now. You'll leave by the right, through the alley....

If I have viewed them from a certain angle, it is because, seen from there, that is how they looked--which may be due to prismatic distortion, but which is therefore what they also are, though unaware of being it.

Je hasarde une explication : écrire c'est le dernier recours quand on a trahi.

It was a good thing that I raised egoistic masturbation to the dignity of a cult! I have only to begin the gesture and a kind of unclean and supernatural transposition displaces the truth. Everything within me turns worshipper. The external vision of the props of my desire isolates me, far from the world.