All Quotes By Tag: Truth

“Is this the truth we knew, and then forgot?Maybe the lies are all that we’ve gotBut aren’t they beautiful?”

“Einer hat immer Unrecht: aber mit zweien beginnt die Wahrheit. Einer kann sich nicht beweisen: aber zweie kann man bereits nicht widerlegen.”

“Whoever thou art that, not content with a moderate condition, imaginest happiness in royal magnificence, and dreamest that command or riches can feed the appetite of novelty with perpetual gratifications, survey the Pyramids, and confess thy folly!”

“إنّ الطبيعة اليهودية طبيعة معقّدة، لها قابليّة عجيبة على التلوّن بمختلف الألوان، والظهور في عدّة أشكال، فيما يظل الجوهر فاسداً لا أمل فيه”

“We didn’t try to force God’s hand or do the “I just heard a sermon about David and Goliath so I need to quit my job right this second” leap of faith that’s so popular in Christian circles. We took our time with the decision, like another guy in the Bible, named Jesus. He spent thirty years in obscurity before he started his adventure. Often, we’re not willing to spend thirty minutes in preparation, never mind thirty years, especially when we come home from a conference and find our day jobs waiting for us on Monday morning. I’m not sure why Christians sometimes think the maturation of our own missions will be radically shorter than that of Jesus. But it happens and in the past I’ve certainly wanted to take wild, unplanned, possibly-not-inspired-by-God leaps of faith.”

“Saya akan lebih mendulukan kebenaran-kebenaran universal, bukan hutang budi, bukan kewajiban moral dan bukan juga pengabdian buta.”

“What are you burning?” On a glance, just some papers.”I write in a journal.” He spoke below his breath, so that his words weren’t quite for me. “Because I like to see everything written down. So that I know it really happened. That I wasn’t just making it up. Then I read it and memorize it. And then I have to destroy the hard evidence.”I thought of my own journal, the muddle of every page. All those unfiltered, lunatic letters to Sean Ryan.”What is it, exactly, that you need to destroy?””Everything that I don’t want to be true.”

“There are many different stories to tell. It’s never the same. Every day weather blows in and out, alters the surface. Sometimes it is stripped down to a single essential truth, the thing that is always believed, no matter what. The seeds from which the garden has grown.”

“Like” and “like” and “like”–but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?”

“I wish i could tell you that through the tragedy i mined some undiscovered, life-altering absolute that i could pass on to you.I didn’t.The cliches apply-people are what count,life is precious,materialism is over rated, and the little things matter,live in the moment-and i can repeat them to you ad nauseam.you might listen, but you won’t internalize.Tragedy hammers it hm.Tragedy etches into your soul.You might not be happier.But you will be better.”

“the difference between poets and mystics . . . The mystic nails a symbol to one meaning that was true for a moment but soon becomes false. The poet, on the other hand, sees that truth while it’s true but understands that symbols are always in flux and that their meanings are fleeting.”

“…inability to lie is still far from being love to truth. Be on your guard! … He who cannot lie, doth not know what truth is.”

“Turn your head away from the screen, my friend. It will tell you nothing more.”

“Indeed our survival and liberation depend upon our recognition of the truth when it is spoken and lived by the people. If we cannot recognize the truth, then it cannot liberate us from untruth. To know the truth is to appropriate it, for it is not mainly reflection and theory. Truth is divine action entering our lives and creating the human action of liberation.”

“Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.”