Quotes About Truths

They are sceptical towards the claims of grand social theories or narratives, whether Marxist, liberal or Christian. There are no universal truths. They were used in the past to legitimate the power of those who know and deny power to those who do not know, and so should be criticised ('deconstructed').

We cannot love our enemies until we see those twin truths: God loves me. God loves them.

There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.

Principles are underlying truths that don't change over time or space, while practices are the application of principles to a particular situation.

A science without philosophy would literally not know what it was talking about. A philosophy without methodological exploration of phenomena would end up with nothing but formal truths, which is to say, errors.

Like most adolescents, she was reluctant to admit the tender truths of her life, constantly concerned that her secrets were somehow both more salacious and more pitiful than those of her peers.

A calm night is open to all the truths.

Everyone has his own truths and every such truth corresponds to a particular intelligence or consciousness level. If some religious absurdities are your truths, then you must increase your level to approach to the real truth! At the position of low level intelligence and consciousness, it is impossible to see the real truth!

Here is the best wish for the new year: Let there be more freedom of thought throughout the world! Fields need rain; truths need freedom of thought!

Try to see the world from the eyes of an old man! Old eyes are a good place to begin with for understanding the truths!

Talvez, quem sabe, cumprisse o que sempre fora: sonhador de lembranças, inventor de verdades. Um sonâmbulo passeando entre o fogo. Um sonâmbulo como a terra em que nascera.

Philosophy is an operation that of itself produces nothing; it operates on the basis of truths subtracted from the event.

When in the evening we are alone with our most existential thoughts, it is then that we come face to face with the most precious truths that we discover in our brief existence in this world. Just before fatigue envelopes us, taking us into sleep. We think of what our lives actually mean. And then we know how lucky we are if we still enjoy consciousness, rationality and love. But the greatest of these is love.

I might believe some powerful truths, but if those beliefs are only in my head and don't impact the way I live, nothing about my life will draw others to faith.

You are not meant to bear that which you find unpleasant; you are meant to change it. That's why you feel it. Your every twitch of pain and malaise invites you to wake up, pushing you to seek grander truths that will reveal a bigger reality and a more magnificent you, ever closer to an awareness of your true place within reality creation—as a Creator.

Nothing is absolute any longer, Mr. Panofsky. There is a choice of beliefs and a choice of truths to go with them. If you choose not to choose then there is no truth at all. There are only points of view.…" "Still, that is no answer." "What if there are no answers? Or if the answers offered are not suitable – what then? Perhaps there are only more questions.

a good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser. Not just more knowledgeable - books that provide nothing but information can produce that result. But wiser, in the sense that you are more deeply aware of the great and enduring truths of human life.

The study of the wisdom teachings should be a continuous process in which the teachings become the predominant factor of life rather than the useless and oftentimes negative and illusory thoughts of those who are ignorant of spiritual truths.

Learning to write is not a linear process. There is no logical A-to-B-to-C way to become a good writer. One neat truth about writing cannot answer it all. There are many truths. To do writing practice means to deal ultimately with your whole life. If you receive instructions on how to set a broken bone in your ankle, you can't use those same instructions to fill a cavity in your teeth.

Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.

Who wrote the Bible? Answer: The Bible was written by intelligent men who used solar and phallic myths to reveal psychological truths. But we have mistaken their allegory for history and, therefore, have failed to see their true message.

By the way we also hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal that they have been endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights that among these are life Liberty & the pursuit of Happiness & last but not least that 2+2 makes 4 unless otherwise instructed

The creative impulse, to me, is a form of bafflement, and often feels dissonant and unsettling. It chips away at your own cherished truths about things, pushes against your own sense of what is acceptable. It's the guiding force that leads you to where it wants to go. It's not the other way around. You're not leading it.