Religion carries two sorts of people in two entirely opposite directions: the mild and gentle people it carries towards mercy and justice; the persecuting people it carries into fiendish sadistic cruelty. Mind you, though this may seem to justify the eighteenth-century Age of Reason in its contention that religion is nothing but an organized, gigantic fraud and a curse to the human race, nothing could be farther from the truth. It possesses these two aspects, the evil one of the two appealing to people capable of naïve hatred; but what is actually happening is that when you get natures stirred to their depths over questions which they feel to be overwhelmingly vital, you get the bad stirred up in them as well as the good; the mud as well as the water. It doesn't seem to matter much which sect you have, for both types occur in all sects....
Alfred North WhiteheadTag: truth questions justice nature mercy hatred age-of-reason curse fraud sect vital
It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.
Nisargadatta MaharajTag: inspirational truth spiritual
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I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness; he looked so deep I felt sure he'd see the truth. But I lied too well. I was lying with every nerve and fiber and everything I'd ever done...I wanted him to find no good in me, and he didn't. There is none.
Philip PullmanTag: truth love lies evil good mrs-coulter
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
Henry David ThoreauMostra la citazione in tedesco
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I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.
Jasper FfordeMostra la citazione in tedesco
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar WildeTag: truth
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Carl SaganTag: science truth knowledge religion understanding cosmology delusion
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It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
George WashingtonTag: truth honesty lies lying confession excuses
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To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.
Evelyn Fox KellerMostra la citazione in tedesco
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Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!
GalenTag: science truth knowledge learning
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