Truth

"True beauty is measured by the number of pearls within you, not those around your neck."

"Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. The fundamental conceptions of psychology are practically very clear to us, but theoretically they are very confused, and one easily makes the obscurest assumptions in this science without realizing, until challenged, what internal difficulties they involve."

"Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love."

"You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth."

"I Take Life Very Seriously: One Joke At A Time."

"It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about."

"I consider a dream like I consider a shadow,” answered Caeiro, with his usual divine, unexpected promptitude. “A shadow is real, but it’s less real than a rock. A dream is real — if it weren’t, it wouldn’t be a dream — but less real than a thing. That’s what being real is like."

"For wordsmiths and masters of words, without necessarily being harsh with words, the words have a tendency to shoot straight to the hearts of people, and this either deeply touches them or deeply angers them. Like the apostles in all their loving controversies are those who are masters of words while combining this gift with truth."

"Love is my inner strength and my power."

"The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires."

"We did all the tourist crap, but I just wanted to sit in a cafe and watch people"

"The sole philosophy open to those who doubt the possibility of truth is absolute silence -- even mental."

"Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth."

"They will say that I, having no literary skill, cannot properly express that which I desire to treat of, but they do not know that my subjects are to be dealt with by experience rather than by words. And [experience] has been the mistress of those who wrote well. And so, as mistress, I will cite her in all cases. Though I may not, like them, be able to quote other authors, I shall rely on that which is much greater and more worthy: on experience, the mistress of their masters."

"Despite its successes, in the end, philosophical thinking always falls short of its real goal. It involves both the wonder of aspiring toward the Truth and the distress of falling short of that Truth. In this way, philosophy can be characterized as wondrous distress."

"If you want to bring the world closer to peace, be a peacemaker by creating peace whenever you can. If you find yourself engaged in an argument that only stirs anger in the heart, quickly make peace and carry on."

"Expressing doubt is how we begin a journey to discover essential truths."

"The secret of happiness is love and secret of love is nonjudgmental care."

"Share your love, share you happiness, care for others; your wealth will be endless."

"You are not just for the right or left, but for what is right over the wrong."