From Francis Bacon: “Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.”
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Quote of the day 02/21/25
From Francis Bacon: “Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.”
Quote of the day 12/11/24
From Friedrich Nietzsche: “Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.”
Quote of the day 09/26/24
From Rabindranath Tagore: “The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.”
Quote of the day 08/07/24
From John Steinbeck: “There’s more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”
Quote of the day 07/10/24
From Nagarjuna: “The whole world is cause and effect; excluding this, there is no sentient being. From factors which are empty, empty factors originate. Those who impute origination to even very subtle entities are unwise and have not seen the meaning of conditioned origination. There is nothing to be denied and nothing to be affirmed.Continue reading “Quote of the day 07/10/24”
Quote of the day 06/21/24
From Zhuangzi: “When a man does not dwell in self, then things will of themselves reveal their forms to him. His movement is like that of water, his stillness like that of a mirror, his responses like those of an echo.”
Quote of the day 06/09/24
From Thich Nhat Hanh: “The truth is already in you. You only need to open yourself — body, mind, and heart — so that his or her teachings will penetrate your own seeds of understanding and enlightenment. If you let the words enter you, the soil and the seeds will do the rest of theContinue reading “Quote of the day 06/09/24”
Quote of the day 05/25/24
From Soren Kierkegaard: “The truth is a snare: you cannot have it without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.”
Quote of the day 05/18/24
From Alan Watts: “In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.”
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