From Francis Bacon: “No pleasure is comparable to the standing on the vantage ground of truth.”
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Quote of the day 03/24/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Truth is expressible only in the form of a paradox. What is not paradoxical, is not true; is not living, inexpressible truth. Denial is the only way to answer, blasphemy the only praise.”
Quote of the day 03/16/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Sometimes the truth slides so gently into our minds that we are hardly aware of it.”
Quote of the day 03/01/24
From Francis Bacon: “Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.”
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.”
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