#ruth

Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#disclosure #divine #human #reason #salvation

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth. ↗

— Joan of Arc

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Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash. ↗

— Louis Aragon

#black and white #clash #conflict #darkness #error

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#deceiver #deceiving #depends #efficiency #entirely

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. ↗

— Aristotle

#dearer #me #plato #still #truth

I think we have erred on the side of being too conservative so far, to tell you the truth. ↗

— Roone Arledge

#conservative #erred #far #i #i think

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#assistants #battalion #does #happiness #more

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold. ↗

— Aristotle

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Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth. ↗

— Stephen King

#fantasy #fiction #truth #writing #writing-process

There is a law of the natural worlds (the spiritual and the physical) and this is something I have understood: that for every genuine existence, for every real manifestation and occurrence, there are are ten thousand falsities. Before you meet what or who is genuine, you will first have met, or known of, what is fake; and ten thousand times so! There is no need to feel disappointments, any number below ten thousand deceptions renders you a lucky person! And you ask why is there a need for this to happen? Well, if you have not known what is false first, there is no way to understand what then comes which is truth. What is lesser is so afraid of what is genuine, that it finds it necessary to imitate and duplicate that imitation ten thousand times over, for fear that you will finally meet what is real. The more important that one existence is, the more imitations there are in the world. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#disappointments #fake #false #genuine #imitations