Quotes About Truth

A father is a reality-concealing machine, a machine for dishing up lies to kids, and that isn't even the worst of it: secretly he believes that he represents reality.

Better to be caught in sudden, complete catastrophe than to be gnawed by the cancer of imagination.

No human being can be so honest as to become completely false.

The process in which a writer is compelled to counterfeit his true feelings is exactly the opposite of that which the man of society is compelled to counterfeit his. The artist disguises in order to reveal; the man of society disguises in order to conceal

By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive the Truth. And first we must know that each of the petals has eighty-four thousand veins and that each vein gives eighty-four thousand lights.

A dead body reminds me a bit of a bottle of whisky. If you drop the bottle and it cracks, what's inside pours out. It's only natural.

La memoria è lo specchio degli inganni

Bu dunyanin uzerine boydan boya yapistirilmis bir "olaniksizlik"etiketi vardir. Ve bu etiketi yirtip atabileceklerin sadece biz oldugunu aklindan cikarma.

Cuando uno se convence de que, al enamorarse, resulta tremendamente vulnerable, la idea de haber vivido hasta entonces desconocedor de esta verdad les hace estremecerse. Por esta razón el amor vuelve virtuosas a ciertas personas.

La realtà a differenza dei sogni, è priva di elasticità.

A todo el mundo le ocurre lo mismo, todos los seres humanos son iguales- replicó el viejo escritor, alzando la voz. -Pero creer lo contrario es el privilegio de la juventud.

Cuando se trata de satisfacer al corazón, ningún vicio estaba a la altura de la hipocresía

Bueno, todos los pacientes son, en cierto modo, unos mentirosos. Vienen a mi consulta porque sus mentiras les hacen sufrir. El paciente que domina el arte de la mentira acaba siendo víctima de una enfermedad más grave. Pero piensa que aquel que paga puntualmente sus honorarios no nos engaña.

The skinned neck, draped gracefully on the floor, seemed to be wearing a cat mask. The cat was only an exterior, life had posed as a cat.

El autoengaño era mi último rayo de esperanza.

what has no place in a poem has no place in my house.

Quando tentano di esprimere la verità, le parole balbettano sempre in questo modo. Mi pare quasi di vederle annaspare. Non per vergogna, né per paura, ma perché è inevitabile che la nuda verità provochi un simile balbettare, espressione di una sua certa rozza natura.

Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one's own heart.

The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail.

if the world changed, i could not exist, and if i changed, the world could not exist

I wish there is a world where any one can know the truth and speak there mind with freedom without having to fear for their lives (Rinko, Basara, Vol. 13)

Are you afriad to tell them the truth? Are you afraid they'll abandon you? You're afraid because you don't trust your followers. If all you want is to lead your fight and take this secret to your grave, then keep it to yourself. But if you want to TRUST them, and earn their trust in return, if you want to fight alongside them, then you must tell them. If they leave you, it means you weren't worth it from the start. (Unten to Sarasa)

Hak cihâna tol?dur kimseler Hakk'? bilmez / An? sen senden iste o senden ayru olmaz.

The age calls for simple statements and restatements of simple truths. The prophets of doom are involved, those who would bring light must be clear.