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Tag Archives: truth
Apocalypse
"What a tragic world this is. Those down here are prisoners, and the ultimate tragedy is that they don't know it, they think they are free because they never have been free, and do not understand what it means. This … Continue reading
Black & White
"How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? If there is a stage … Continue reading
Center
"Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the … Continue reading
Change
"If you never change your mind, why have one?" – Edward De Bono "I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself." – Aldous Huxley "In a … Continue reading
Error
"The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth – that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when … Continue reading
Funny
"What helps for me – if help comes at all – is to find the mustard seed of the funny at the core of the horrible and futile." – Philip K. Dick "When a thing is funny, search it for … Continue reading
Giants
"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." – Isaac Newton "A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two." – George Herbert, 1593-1632 "The Giants who formed this world into … Continue reading
Heresies
"The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy." – Jorge Luis Borges: "The Theologians" "The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next." – Helen Keller "It is the fate of new truths … Continue reading
Home
"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. The soul that rises with us, our life's star, hath had elsewhere its setting, and cometh from afar: not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of … Continue reading
Magic
"Some mon just deal wit’ information. An, some mon, him deal wit’ the concept of truth. An’ den some mon deal wit’ magic. Information flow aroun’ ya, an’ truth flow right at ya. But magic, it flow t’rough ya" – … Continue reading
