Quotes About Truth

Nothing human was worth denying. Even if it was unspeakably ugly, we could learn from it, couldn't we? Or could we? I never questioned that at all.

If I wrote that women could be unkind, I was considered a traitor -- as if it were not worse treachery to pretend that all women were kind.

Again we are re-minded of the fate of women in patriarchal society. How can we find the truth about their lives when most of the books were written by men?

The truth is: nobody bothers to kill poets in America. It's enough to buy them in universities. Undead.

Quel homme possède jamais une femme ? Quel homme possède jamais la vérité ?

La quantité ne fait pas la vérité.

Oscar, la malattia è come la morte. E' un fatto. Non è una punizione.

W gruncie rzeczy wszystkie wyjaÅ›nienia majÄ… to samo ?ródÅ'o: strach, ?e ?adnego siÄ™ nie znajdzie.

J'ai l'impression, Mamie-Rose, qu'on a inventé un autre hôpital que celui qui existe vraiment. On fait comme si on ne venait à l'hôpital que pour guérir. Alors qu'on y vient aussi pour mourir. - Tu as raison, Oscar. Et je crois qu'on fait la même erreur pour la vie. Nous oublions que la vie est fragile, friable, éphémère. Nous faisons tous semblant d'être immortels.

Od prawdy zawsze wola?am niepewno??.

Adev?rul r?mâne inaccesibil, nu exist? decât adev?ruri provizorii, tentative de adev?r.

Hakikat, bizim en fazla hoÅŸumuza giden yalan?n ta kendisidir, öyle deÄŸil mi?

Mój ojciec niewÄ…tpliwie cierpiaÅ' z powodu swojego ateizmu, tym bardziej ?e uwielbiana przez niego matka byÅ'a wierzÄ…ca i pewnie marzyÅ', ?eb podziela? jej wiarÄ™... Bez wÄ…tpienia chciaÅ' równie? zachowa? siÄ™ jak hojny ojciec i oznajmi? swojemu dziecku, ?e Bóg istnieje... ByÅ'aby to dobra nowina... ?aska, której nie umiaÅ' przekaza?...

Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth swim around and give the reassurance, albeit false, that the whole mixture is real and true. The thinking processes attempt to organize this whole cesspool of illusions according to the laws of plausibility. This level of consciousness is supposed to reflect reality; it is the map we use for organizing our life.

Rationalizing is not a tool for penetration of reality but a post-factum attempt to harmonize one's own wishes with existing reality.

Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.

The basic for any approach to self-transformation is an ever-increasing awareness of reality and the shedding of illusions.

Whether or not we are aware of it, there is nothing of which we are more ashamed than of not being ourselves, and there is nothing that gives us greater pride and happiness than to think, to feel, and to say what is ours.

Yet all this bespeaks a dim realization of the truth—the truth that modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want. In order to accept this it is necessary to realize that to know what one really wants is not comparatively easy, as most people think, but one of the most difficult problems any human being has to solve. It is a task we frantically try to avoid by accepting ready-made goals as though they were our own.

An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality.

As a child, every human being passes through a state of powerlessness, and truth is one of the strongest weapons of those who have no power.

Man can only know the nagation, never the position of ultimate reality.

To be naive and easily deceived is impermissible, today more than ever, when the prevailing untruths may lead to a catastrophe because they blind people to real dangers and real possibilities.

Erkenntnis] ist nur möglich, wenn ich mein eigenes Interesse transzendiere und den anderen so sehe, wie er wirklich ist.