Quotes About Truth

What we see isn't what we see but what we are.

Var olan tek s?r, bir s?r olduÄŸunu düÅŸünen insanlar?n olmas?d?r.

Wise is the one who does not seek.

dieser heilige Instinkt, der uns veranlasst, keine Theorien zu haben...

Laguna de la posesión (II) Nada puede penetrarse, ni los átomos ni las almas. Por eso nada posee nada. Desde la verdad hasta un pañuelo —todo es imposeible. La propiedad no es un robo: no es nada.

Flashes of awareness that we live an illusion – that, and no more, is what distinguishes the greatest of men.

I've always felt an almost physical repugnance for secret things — intrigues, diplomacy, secret societies, occultism

To go from the phantoms of faith to the ghosts of reason is merely to change cells. Art, if it frees us from the abstract idols of old, should also free us from magnanimous ideas and social concerns, which are likewise idols.

we who are as much the vegetables of truth as we are of life, the dust that covers the windowpanes both inside and out, the grandchildren of Destiny and the stepchildren of God, who married Eternal Night when she was left a widow by Chaos, our true father.

On the road halfway between faith and criticism stands the inn of reason. Reason is faith in what can be understood without faith, but it's still a faith, since to understand presupposes that there's something understandable.

No encontrar nunca a Dios, no saber nunca, ni siquiera, si Dios existe! Ir pasando de mundo en mundo, de encarnación en encarnación, siempre en la ilusión que halaga, siempre en el error que acaricia.

Everything, for us, is in our concept of the world. To modify our concept of the world is to modify the world for us, or simply to modify the world, since it will never be, for us, anything but what it is for us.

Civilization consists in giving an inappropriate name to something and then dreaming what results from that. And in fact the false name and the true dream do create a new reality. The object really does become other, because we have made it so.

Tenho uma grande tristeza Acrescentada à que sinto. Quero dizer-ma mas pesa O quanto comigo minto.

O mundo exterior existe como um ator num palco: está lá mas é outra coisa.

Reason is faith in what can be understood without faith, but it's still a faith, since to understand presupposes that there's something understandable.

The truth is that nothing changes anything and what we say or do only brushes the tops of the mountains in whose valleys all things sleep.

We may be guided by an illusion, but one thing is sure, it is not our consciousness that guides us.

You've never heard the wind blow. The wind only speaks of the wind. What you heard was a lie, And the lie is in you.

Deixa que um momento pense Que ainda vives ao meu lado... Triste de quem por si mesmo Precisa ser enganado!

Kendimizi tan?d?kça yan?lg?lara düÅŸeriz, kendini tan? diyen kahin, Herakles'in iÅŸlerinden daha zor bir iÅŸ, Sfenks'inkinden daha karanl?k bir bilmece atm?? oluyordu ortaya.

Only what we dream is what we truly are, because all the rest, all that has been realized, belongs to the world and to everyone.

That episode of the imagination we call reality

Is it truth I want? I'll go back to my novel …