Posted by: Ugo Perugini
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Truth and lies)
The truth, to which only a brief triumph is allotted between the two long periods in which it is condemned as paradoxical or disparaged as trivial.
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The truth, to which only a brief triumph is allotted between the two long periods in which it is condemned as paradoxical or disparaged as trivial.
Maybe only silence really exists.
Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons. The truth will win this marathon in court.
It is very difficult for a man to believe enough energetically in something, so that what he believes means something, without annoying the others.
Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.
Because a reality wasn't given to us and is not there; but we have to make it ourselves, if we want to be; and it will never be one for ever, but constant and infinitely changeable.
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end; legends are lies which become history in the end.
What is truth?-Inertia; that hypothesis which gives rise to contentment; smallest expenditure of spiritual force.
Whatever destroys liberty isn't love. It must be something else, for love and liberty are great friends, two wings on the same dove.
Everytime you should see love in conflict with you liberty, it means you're doing something else in the name of love.
Adam was but human-- this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.