The idle tittle-tattle is very wrong and unkind, but it is so often true.
The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true.
The fact is that nothing is more difficult to believe than the truth; conversely, nothing seduces like the power of lies, the greater the better. It’s only natural, and you will have to find the right balance.
The difficulty is to teach the multitude that something can be both true and untrue at the same time.[Allein wie soll man dem Volke beibringen, daß etwas zugleich wahr und nicht wahr sein könne?]
The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
The deeper the truth in a creative work, the longer it will live.
The closer to the truth, the better the lie, and the truth itself, when it can be used, is the best lie.
The beginning of religion, more precisely its content, is the concept of religion itself, that God is the absolute truth, the truth of all things, and subjectively that religion alone is the absolutely true knoweldge.
That’s the curious part about speaking the truth. No one does believe it.
That was a good time in my life, in spite of having the sensation of floating on a cloud, surrounded by both lies and things left unspoken. Occasionally I thought I glimpsed the truth, but soon found myself once again lost in a forest of ambiguities.
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant —
Sometimes the truth is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the totality of what is known.
