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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
the only truth is face to face, the poem whose words become your mouth and dying in black and white we fight for what we love, not are
Here is the Truth in a little creed, Enough for all the roads we go: In Love is all the law we need, In Christ is all the God we know.
It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away. Puzzling.
Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
Truth is best (of all that is) good. As desired, what is being desired is truth for him who (represents) the best truth. (Gathas 27.14)
Nothing great in science has ever been done by men, whatever their powers, in whom the divine afflatus of the truth-seeker was wanting.
Truth is the mother of joy. Truth civilizes, ennobles and purifies. The grandest ambition that can enter the soul is to know the truth.
Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love.
Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures.
Silence is the foundation of truth. Words are most meaningful when they emerge from silence and when they are received by a quiet mind.
We are like a judge confronted by a defendant who declines to answer, and we must determine the truth from the circumstantial evidence.
Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.
The best ideas are the honest ones. Ones born out of personal experience. Ones that originated to help a few but ended up helping many.
I enjoy reality as much as the next man. It's just that in my case, fortunately, reality includes a good stiff belt every now and then.
It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound.
So, I think that's the centerpiece of morality: Don't lie. But to do that, you have to go a step further and find out what the truth is.
The sense of ultimate truth is the intellectual counterpart of the esthetic sense of perfect beauty, or the moral sense of perfect good.
Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.
The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
If you are terribly truthful, the ground will always move from under you, and you will have to shift with the constantly shifting truth.
But the sunshine aye shall light the sky, As round and round we run; And the truth shall ever come uppermost, And justice shall be done.
The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.
Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance.
If you see there is no meaning to anything that you are doing, your ego collapses; so you are trying to find all kinds of fake meanings.
Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated.
Nothing can express the aim and meaning of our work better than the profound words of St. Augustine - 'Beauty is the splendor of Truth.'
My father, whose way was to force every event in nature into an hypothesis, by which means never man crucified TRUTH at the rate he did.
If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him.
The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs it, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth.
In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after the revolution.
I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.
What is Truth? Truth is the attribute of when the human heart marries the love of God, and the result is passion for your spiritual path.
There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.
We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.
Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.
We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
The ultimate truth is penultimately always a falsehood. He who will be proved right in the end appears to be wrong and harmful before it.
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.
The truth is that there is no journey. You are right now what you are attempting to be. You are right now where you are attempting to go.
Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.
There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.
Each person does see the world in a different way. There is not a single, unifying, objective truth. We're all limited by our perspective.
It is not error which opposes the progress of truth; it is indolence, obstinacy, the spirit of routine, every thing which favors inaction.
I love new places, new people, new ideas. I love cultural differences, and I'm fascinated by the truth - all the different versions of it.
In all perception of the truth there is a divine ecstasy, an inexpressible delirium of joy, as when a youth embraces his betrothed virgin.