Quotes About Truth

Do not imagine that art or anything else is other than high magic! - is a system of holy hieroglyph. The artist, the initiate, thus frames his mysteries. The rest of the world scoff, or seek to understand, or pretend to understand; some few obtain the truth.

Belief is the enemy of knowledge.

El más grave de todos los ´pecados´ es el autoengaño

Awake from dream, the truth is known: awake from waking. The truth is: The Unknown

The keystone… some have called God, some Brahma, some Zeus… some even IAO… but in truth, O seeker, it is Thy-SELF.

Shallow thinkers always seem to be obsessed by the stupidity that if anything is a shadow, dream, illusion, it ceases to exist.

All this is true and false; and it is true and false to say that it is true and false.

The seal of Reason, made impregnable: _ The seal of Truth, immeasurably splendid: The seal of Brotherhood, man's miracle: _ The seal of Peace, and Wisdom heaven-descended: The seal of Bitterness, cast down to Hell: _ The seal of Love, secure, not-to-be-rended: The seventh seal, Equality: that, broken, God sets His thunder and earthquake for a token.

I slept with Faith, and found a corpse in my arms on  awaking; I drank and danced all night with Doubt, and found her a virgin in the morning.

Directly a man begins to say Yes without the question Why? he becomes a dogmatist, a potential, if not an actual liar.

If Osiris, Christ, and Mahomet were mad, then indeed is madness the key to the door of the Temple.

Thoughts are false.

My three-dimensional mind thinks all this 'real,' a history; where at most it is a geography, a partial [62] set of infinite aspects.

The Abyss of Hallucinations has Law and Reason; but in Truth there is no bond between the Toys of the Gods.

As long as we try to fit facts to theories instead of adopting the scientific attitude of altering the theories (when necessary) to fit the facts, we shall remain mired in falsehood.

Truth is Truth; and the Truth of yesterday is the Truth of to-day, and the Truth of to-day is the Truth of to- morrow. Our quest, then, is to find Truth, and to cut the kernel from the husk, the text from the comment.

The truth of the profane was the falsehood of the Neophyte, and the truth of the Neophyte was the falsehood of the Zelator! Again and again the fortress must be battered down! Again and again the pylon must be overthrown! Again and again must the gods be desecrated!

Ahora ya sé que mi soledad va a ser más difícil, y mis geranios más pobres y mi frío más frío. Pero son mi única verdad, y no quiero volver a soñar nunca por no tener que despertar otra vez.

Cree usted que es un bien devolverle la razón y abrirle los ojos otra vez a este mundo sucio que la rodea?

Quienes dicen "yo perdono, pero no olvido" tendrían que entender que recordar los agravios es peor que no perdonarlos, porque perdonar sin olvidar es mentira».

Siempre nos queda el derecho de querer saber.

La vida no siempre es lo que ocurre, sino las secuelas de lo que parece ser.

There are moments in life when it is all turned inside out--what is real becomes unreal, what is unreal becomes tangible, and all your levelheaded efforts to keep a tight ontological control are rendered silly and indulgent.

Your memories become fantasies if they are not shared, and your life in all its triviality becomes a legend.