Quotes About Truth

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

When will women begin to have the first glimmer that above all other loyalties is the loyalty to Truth, i.e., to yourself, that husband, children, friends and country are as nothing to that?

Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?

It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.

Top tip 4: Somtimes you're lying when you say nothing at all

Billy didn't need someone to pour him his drinks, he needed someone to tell him that living isn't poetry. It isn't prayer. To tell him and convince him. And none of us could do it because every one of us thought that as long as Billy believed it was, as long as he kept himself believing it, then maybe it could still be true.

There was... her capacity to believe. There was as well her capacity to be deceived, since you can't have one without the other...

Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional acceptance of the truth in the individual and unique history of our childhood.

Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated. We can only repress them, delude ourselves, and deceive our bodies. The body sticks to the facts.

The truth about our childhood is stored up in our body, and although we can repress it, we can never alter it. Our intellect can be deceived, our feelings manipulated, and conceptions confused, and our body tricked with medication. But someday our body will present its bill, for it is as incorruptible as a child, who, still whole in spirit, will accept no compromises or excuses, and it will not stop tormenting us until we stop evading the truth.

In order to become whole we must try, in a long process, to discover our own personal truth, a truth that may cause pain before giving us a new sphere of freedom. If we choose instead to content ourselves with intellectual "wisdom," we will remain in the sphere of illusion and self-deception.

Child abuse damages a person for life and that damage is in no way diminished by the ignorance of the perpetrator. It is only with the uncovering of the complete truth as it affects all those involved that a genuinely viable solution can be found to the dangers of child abuse.

Why is it a surprise to find that people other than ourselves are able to tell lies?

If you remember better times you know they were lies, because they led to this

Distortion's all that I know.

This clearing is full of false lights, flickers that stop when you look.

I don't want this part where I don't know if I've dreamed it or not.

Of course I'm not being objective it was my life As a matter of fact I feel positively defiant about

you need to know that our interpreta- tion of the past can't be right.

I want to touch a phantom, it's the grey dove of truth

A razão do sacrifício religioso (Saturno) é o fato de só podermos dar algo que, antes de tudo, temos verdadeiramente. Assim, ao "sacrificá-lo", santificamos a sua presença ab origine dentro de nós.

A astrologia é antropocêntrica. Vivemos na Terra, não no Sol. E, se considerarmos o sistema solar como um paradigma para a psique, esse Zodíaco Tropical reflete uma verdade psíquica. A vida que vivemos entre o nosso nascimento e a nossa morte é um tipo de ilusão, ou aquilo que os hindus chamam de maya, ou que Shakespeare chamou 'a matéria de que são feitos os sonhos'. Porém, enquanto estamos aqui, eles parecem muito reais.

Love is...' he paused and then laughed. 'Love is like an armchair cover. It hides a multitude of sins. It's washable and may well have a riot of roses and auriculas splashed over it, but underneath everything is all ripped up.

The world in which we now live is a world whose outlook is so distorted that we absolutize what is relative (money-making, power, success) and relativize what is absolute (truth, moral values, and God).