Quotes About Truth

A verdade, se ela existe, Ver-se-á que só consiste Na procura da verdade, Porque a vida é só metade.

And all religions put together teach no more than the candy shop.

Toen ik mij wilde ontmaskeren Zat het masker vast aan mijn gezicht.

I never go beyond immediate reality. There is nothing beyond immediate reality.

Tu amor por las cosas soñadas era tu desprecio por las cosas vividas.

No fundo, acredite, o que somos de mais doloroso é o que não somos realmente, e as nossas maiores tragédias passam-se na ideia que fazemos de nós.

Sunt oameni fericiÅ£i fiindc? li s-a dat visul mincinos al imbecilit??ii.În vreme ce alÅ£ii,ca mine,au visuri lipsite de iluzii.

Estou hoje vencido, como se soubesse a verdade. Estou hoje lúcido, como se estivesse para morrer, E não tivesse mais irmandade com as coisas

It's raining, and I suddenly feel the terrible weight of being an animal that doesn't know what it is, dreaming its thought and emotion, withdrawn into a spatial region of being as into a hovel, satisfied by a little heat as by an eternal truth.

I reread? A lie! I don't dare reread. I can't reread. What good would it do me to reread? The person in the writing is someone else. I no longer understand a thing…

Mejores y más felices los que, reconociendo la ficción de todo, componen su novela antes de que les sea compuesta y, como Maquiavelo, visten los trajes de la corte para escribir bien en secreto.

Io però non ho mai preteso di dire la verità a nessuno, da una parte perché non serve a niente, e dall'altra perché non la conosco. Mio fratello maggiore, Dio onnipotente, credo che neppure lui la conosca, ma queste , tuttavia, sono questioni di famiglia.

La suprema gloria de todo esto, mi amor, estriba en pensar que tal vez nada de esto sea verdad, ni en yo creerlo verdadero.

To reach the truth we lack both the necessary facts and the intellectual processes that could exhaust all possible interpretations of those facts.

se lembre como é não só melhor, senão mais verdadeiro, o sonhar com Bordéus do que desembarcar em Bordéus

A verdade, porém, é que não existo nem eu, nem outra coisa qualquer. Todo este universo, e todos os outros universos, com seus diversos criadores e seus diversos Satãs mais ou menos perfeitos e adestrados são vácuos dentro do vácuo, nadas que giram, satélites, na órbita inútil de coisa nenhuma.

It's raining, and as if the rain had made them hunch forward, my feelings lower their stupid gaze to the ground, where water flows and nourishes nothing, washes nothing, cheers up nothing. It's raining, and I suddenly feel the terrible weight of being an animal that doesn't know what it is, dreaming its thought and emotion, withdrawn into a spatial region of being as into a hovel, satisfied by a little heat as by an eternal truth.

Let us watch Time painting the world and finding the resulting picture not only false but hollow.

Vive tu vida y no seas vivido por ella. Tanto en la verdad como en el error, tanto en el gozo como en el malestar, sé tu propio ser.

Everything is absurd.

I always find it hard to admit that anything done collectively can possibly be sincere, since the only truly sentient being is the individual).

How many things that we consider right or true are merely the vestiges of our dreams, the sleepwalking figures of our incomprehension! Does anyone know what's right or true? How many things we consider beautiful are merely the fashion of the day, the fiction of their time and place! How many things we consider ours are utterly foreign to our blood, we being merely their perfect mirrors or transparent wrappers!

To explain is to disbelieve. Every philosophy is a diplomacy dressed up as eternity..... Like diplomacy, it has no real substance, existing not in its own right but completely and absolutely on behalf of some objective.

Without illusions, we live by dreaming, which is the illusion of those who can't have illusions.