#truth

One thing I love about politicians; they won't allow the truth to be obscured by a bunch of facts. ↗

— Quentin R. Bufogle

#truth #love

I look into his eyes and jump… off of a high dive plunging deep into the pools of green staring back at me. No matter how hard I fought it, no matter how unreasonable or out of control it feels and no matter how much I try to reason it away the truth in this moment… is that Jonathan Hayes owns me heart and soul. ↗

— Kathryn Vance-Perez

#love #truth #love

When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial. This is quite obvious to people nowadays, when it is widely recognised that fixations are not the same as valuable and laudable observances. One should not pray if that prayer is vanity; rituals are wrong when they provide lower satisfactions, like emotional stimulus instead of enlightenment; he or she should not be an ascetic who is only enjoying it. ↗

— Idries Shah

#love #sufis #truth #way #wisdom

The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is not the reflection of a pre-existing truth, but, like art, the act of bringing truth into being. ↗

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

#phenomenology #truth #art

...Other women I can flatter and praise – but to you, I must tell the truth... ↗

— John Geddes

#love #truth #women #love

Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#honesty #truth #men

I didn't care about truth; I cared about beauty. It took me many years--it took the experience of lived time--to realize that they really are the same thing. ↗

— Elif Batuman

#truth #beauty

Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#goodness #truth #beauty

War is like art. It paints a picture mixed with lies and truths in order to help one find something absolute. It brings out imagination. It brings out intelligence. It brings out illumination. The art is worth dying for. The struggle is worth the reward, because even if cause looks futile now, the idea behind it has the power to bring liberation. Although it can be considered a necessary evil, it is a remissible good. War is like art, for it paints a picture of truth. ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#truth-telling #war #art

Somehow the idyllic existence I envisioned never quite came to pass, but aside from the occasional culinary disaster, my marriage wasn't bad. ↗

— Alexandra Bogdanovic

#memoir #truth #marriage