#truth

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.

If you desire philosophy, prepare yourself from the very first to be ridiculed and mocked by the multitude.

If you seek truth, you will not seek by any means to gain a victory by slander; and if you find truth, you will not fear being defeated.

Truth conquers by itself; opinion by foreign aids.

What need have they of light to see what you are doing?

Who, then, wishes to live in error? No one. Who wishes to live deceived, impetuous, dishonest, intemperate, complaining, abject? No one.

If you have assumed a character beyond your strength, you have both played that poorly, and neglected that which you might have filled with credit.

He who shines his own light doesn't shine. He who praises his own work doesn't achieve.

That the soft overcomes the hard, and the yielding overcomes the rigid: everyone knows this, yet no one can put it into practice.

True words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not true. Good men do not argue; those who argue are not good.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

He who has nothing to hide does not need to speak.

Ten truths a day must thou find; else thou seekest truth in the night, and thy soul remaineth hungry.

How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare? More and more that became for me the real measure of value.

He who cannot lie does not know what truth is.

Since it is in the present and only in the present that you live, there is no other reality than present reality.

Human beings are simply unable to live happily without accepting the fundamental insecurity of existence.

To know reality you must look at it directly, not through the screen of symbols, words, and numbers.

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring there.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down, below the surface of the average conscience, a still small voice says to us: something is out of tune.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. I know. I don't need to believe.

Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth.