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Quotes About Truth

nothing is what it is, but dreams are always dreams.)
~ Fernando Pessoa
La única actitud intelectual digna de una criatura superior es la de una fría y tranquila compasión por cuanto no es él mismo. No porque esa actitud tenga el más mínimo signo de ser justa y verdadera, sino porque es tan envidiable que necesario tenerla.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Life for us is whatever we imagine it to be. To the peasant with his one field, that field is everything, it is an empire. To Caesar with his vast empire which still feels cramped, that empire is a field. The poor man has an empire; the great man only a field. The truth is that we possess nothing but our own sensations; it is on them, then, and not what they perceive, that we must base the reality of our life. But all of this is apropos of nothing.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Não me digas que me queres Pois não sei acreditar. No mundo há muitas mulheres Mas mentem todas a par.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Some metaphors are more real than the people you see walking down the street.
~ Fernando Pessoa
İnsan sürekli olarak soyutluÄŸun içinde yaÅŸay?nca –ister düÅŸüncenin, ister düÅŸünülmüÅŸ duygunun soyutluÄŸu olsun– çok geçmeden, hissettiÄŸinin ya da istediÄŸinin aksine, doÄŸam?z gereÄŸi en kolay alg?layabileceÄŸimiz gerçek hayata ait ÅŸeylerin bile hayalete dönüÅŸtüÄŸünü görüyor.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Dac?,din întâmplare,aceast? lume e o greÅŸeal? iar eu sunt adev?rat? Dac? lumea e o greÅŸeal? înseamn? c? este o greÅŸeal? a tuturor oamenilor. Åži fiecare dintre noi este cel puÅ£in greÅŸeala fiec?ruia dintre noi. Dar de ce îmi pun eu întreb?ri,dac? nu pentru c? sunt bolnav?
~ Fernando Pessoa
Compreender um ao outro É um jogo complicado. Pois quem engana não sabe Se não estava enganado.
~ Fernando Pessoa
All that I've had is like this high and diversely identical sky, tatters of nothing tinged by a distang light, fragments of pseudo-life gilded by death from afar with its sad smile of whole truth. All I've had has amounted to my not knowing how to search, like a feudal lord of swamps at twilight, solitary prince of a city of empty tombs.
~ Fernando Pessoa
All that I've had is like this high and diversely identical sky, tatters of nothing tinged by a distant light, fragments of pseudo-life gilded by death from afar with its sad smile of whole truth. All I've had has amounted to my not knowing how to search, like a feudal lord of swamps at twilight, solitary prince of a city of empty tombs.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Cuando el gobierno dice que hay que perseguir los bulos, debería empezar por sí mismo
~ Fernando Savater
Revelaré secretos? No, porque los que tengo no son revelables, son secretos de verdad. ¿Cotillerías? Soy el último que se entera de todas y por tanto el menos adecuado para propalarlas.
~ Fernando Savater
Kebenaran tidak perlu di iklankan...
~ Fidel Castro
To say there is a time and a place for everything is trite, but the truth of the sentiment is not to be denied for all that; one could play the accordion while having a bath but probably nobody has ever tried to do that.
~ Flann O'Brien
Anything you do is a lie and nothing that happens to you is true.
~ Flann O'Brien
The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
~ Flannery O' Connor
Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.
~ Flannery O'Connor
There are all kinds of truth ... but behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.
~ Flannery O'Connor
To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . .
~ Flannery O'Connor
Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing.
~ Flannery O'Connor
I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear.
~ Flannery O'Connor
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. A higher paradox confounds the emotion as well as reason and there are long periods in the lives of all of us, when the truth as revealed by faith is hideous, emotionally disturbing, downright repulsive. Witness the dark night of the soul in individual saints . . .
~ Flannery O'Connor
Someone once told the Catholic writer Flannery O'Connor that it is more open-minded to think that the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar is a great, wonderful, powerful symbol. Her response was, "If it's only a symbol, to hell with it.
~ Flannery O'Connor
I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's, but behind all of them, there's only one truth and that is that there is no truth... No truth behind all truths is what I and this church preach! Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place... In yourself right now is all the place you've got.
~ Flannery O'Connor