Quotes About Truth

Perhaps it is better to be a machine that does its duty than a flesh-and-blood person who will not, for a dead truth is better than a live falsehood

That wall, explained the Shaggy Man, is what is called an optical illusion. It is quite real while you have your eyes open, but if you are not looking at it the barrier doesn't exist at all. It's the same way with many other evils in life; they

I think you had better learn to control that imagination of yours,Anne, if you can't distinguish between what is real and what isnt.

the surest way to lie to others is to lie to oneself first. If you can convince the single soul who knows the falsehood for what it is, then everyone else is an easy mark.

...the relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy.

Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.

I did not have a homosexual relationship with a man in Denver.

I might not be in a relationship anymore, but I don't believe that people should have to lie to themselves just to make somebody else feel good.

In a way, everybody is wounded from the wound of the real. This phenomenon is similar to madness. The mad person is wounded by his or her distorted relationship to the real.

It's not what I think? If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck..." I imply with a shrug "...well then you know what they say.""Nothing hap?""Quack!

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

Since no one really knows anything about God, those who think they do are just troublemakers.

Religion is one of the safest places to hide from God.

The Pentecostal power, when you sum it all up, is just more of God's love. If it does not bring more love, it is simply a counterfeit.

How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one.

My religion is not deceiving myself.

Revival is when God gets so sick and tired of being misrepresented that He shows Himself.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.

That cannot be a true religion which needs carnal weapons to uphold it.

The evidence for the resurrection is better than for claimed miracles in any other religion. It's outstandingly different in quality and quantity.

Believe in God, it's only one God. F*** all that religion s***. Believe in one God, and do right. Try your best to do right, we ain't perfect. Just do that and everything will be straight.

If we are honest - and scientists have to be - we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality.