#truth

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#deceive #displease #entertain #esteem #few

That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#never #self-evident #shall #these #truths

There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#risk #truth #world #you #yourselves

But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#based #brutality #change #citizen #destructive

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#fact #in fact #itself #lyric #medium

Language is the house of the truth of Being. ↗

— Martin Heidegger

#house #language #truth

Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music. ↗

— Jimi Hendrix

#almost #being #high #like #makes

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be. ↗