Quotes About Truth

tama ni ge ni / mokut? ya tada / michi no tsuki In spirit and in truth silent prayer . . . just the moon on the road

One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits.

Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret. —Jean de La Fontaine, French poet (1621–1695)

I realized that a new phase of exile was beginning, that from now on there would be other periods, all different, each with its own anxieties, all shattering and overwhelming, and that I would be changing too, passing from one crisis to the next until I reached the moment of truth, unique and definitive — the day on which I would either stop being an exile and return home, or unavoidably, with sadness and resignation, become an immigrant.

Escribí sin odio contra el lenguaje del odio y contra la desmemoria y el olvido tramado por quienes tratan de inventarse una historia al servicio de su proyecto y sus convicciones totalitarias.

Porque todo ha de saberse y lo que no se sabe lo imagina la malicia de los hombres.

We all have two lives: The true, the one we dreamed of in childhood And go on dreaming of as adults in a substratum of mist; the false, the one we love when we live with others, the practical, the useful, the one we end up by being put in a coffin.

The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.

Only poets and philosophers see the world as it really is, for only to them is it given to live without illusions. To see clearly is to not act.

Ese episodio de la imaginación al que llamamos realidad

As figuras imaginárias têm mais relevo e verdade que as reais.

Beauty is the name of something that doesn't exist

If this be to have sense, if to be awake Be but to see this bright, great sleep of things, For the rarer potion mine own dreams I'll take And for truth commune with imaginings

Civilisation consists in giving something a name that doesn't belong to it and then dreaming over the result. And the false name joined to the true dream does create a new reality. The object does change into something else, because we make it change. We manufacture realities.

Si la liberación no está dentro de mí, no está, para mi, en ninguna parte.

perché se la libertà non è in me non la troverò da nessuna parte.

Temos, todos que vivemos, Uma vida que é vivida E outra vida que é pensada, E a única vida que temos É essa que é dividida Entre a verdadeira e a errada.

Revolution? Change? What I really want, with all my heart, is for the atonic clouds to stop greyly lathering the sky. What I want is to see the blue emerge, a truth that is clear and sure because it is nothing and wants nothing.

Were we as we should be, We wouldn't need any illusions . . .

The search for the truth — whether the subjective truth of one's own convictions, the objective truth of reality or the social truth of money or power — always brings with it, if the searcher in question deserves the prize, the ultimate knowledge that the truth does not exist.

What is there to confess that's worthwhile or useful? What has happened to us has happened to everyone or only to us; if to everyone, then it's no novelty, and if only to us, then it won't be understood.

And when the lie begins to give us pleasure, let us speak the truth in order to lie to the lie.

We all love each other, and the lie is the kiss we exchange.

Porque o único sentido oculto das cousas  É elas não terem sentido oculto