Quotes About Truth

This means that there is no "End of History," as Francis Fukuyama claimed at the end of the Cold War, but it also means that the dialectic always labors in the service of Logos, which is to say, in the service of God's providence. No matter how messy their activity seems, the mills of history always grind out the truth. History is dialectical, but it is also teleological;

Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

People respect nonfiction but they read novels.

The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?

Another reason Westerners are tempted to compromise is because we tend to view the world dualistically. Things are true or false, right or wrong, good or bad. We have little patience for ambiguity or for the unsettling reality that values change over time.

Sin is corporate; it permeates the whole body. We don't like to think that way, but it's true. It leavens the whole lump and the honor of us all is at stake.

To live by worry is to live against reality

If there were no God, we would have to invent one to keep people sane."*

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do.

Honor bright! Fair play is a jewel!

There is no reality without interpretation; just as there is no innocent eye, there is no innocent ear.

The familiar will always remain the likely starting point for the rendering of the unfamiliar; an existing representation will always exert its spell over the artist even while he strives to record the truth.

love does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud, it does not behave improperly, it does not seek its own advantage, it is not easily provoked, it bears no grudge, delights not in evil but rejoices only in the truth. It shelters all, trusts all, always hopes, always endures. Love is everlasting.

Naturally, that doesn't mean that all the news which now reaches us from all over the world is true. One of the things I also learned was not to believe everything I read in the newspapers.

Porque es una máxima constante que nadie ve lo que son las cosas si no sabe lo que deberían ser.

The eyes are the windows of the soul.... If someone was to look into your eyes, what would you want them to see?

A única confissão sincera é aquela que fazemos indirectamente - ao falarmos dos outros.

The business man who assumes that this life is everything, and the mystic who asserts that it is nothing, fail, on this side and on that, to hit the truth. "Yes, I see, dear; it's about halfway between," Aunt Juley had hazarded in earlier years. No; truth, being alive, was not halfway between anything. It was only to be found by continuous excursions into either realm, and though proportion is the final secret, to espouse it at the outset is to ensure sterility

The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.

If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run

One can tip too much as well as too little, indeed the coin that buys the exact truth has not yet been minted.

Men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls.