“When the great religious and philosophical conceptions were alive, thinking people did not extol humility and brotherly love, justice and humanity because it was realistic to maintain such principles and odd and dangerous to deviate from them, or because these maxims were more in harmony with their supposedly free tastes than others. They held to such ideas because they saw in them elements of truth, because they connected them with the idea of logos, whether in the form of God or of a transcendental mind, or even of nature as an eternal principle.” PeopleThinkingMindIdeasFormHumanityReligiousJusticePrinciplesSawsAliveDangerousHumilityTasteTruth IsElementsEternalHarmonyPhilosophicalConnectedOddConceptionRealisticMaximsTranscendentalLogosBrotherlyBrotherly LoveDeviateGreat Religious Author:Max Horkheimer
“It is contended by many that ours is a Christian government, founded upon the Bible, and that all who look upon the book as false or foolish are destroying the foundation of our country. The truth is, our government is not founded upon the rights of gods, but upon the rights of men. Our Constitution was framed, not to declare and uphold the deity of Christ, but the sacredness of humanity. Ours is the first government made by the people and for the people. It is the only nation with which the gods have had nothing to do.” PeopleMenFirstsLooksMadeBookCountryGovernmentChristianHumanityNationsChristRightsAtheismTruth IsConstitutionFoundationFoolishOur CountryLook UpDestroyingDeitiesFramedSacredness Author:Robert Green Ingersoll
“We think of a feminist as someone a woman becomes in reaction to personal indignities and social injustices. But the truth is, such inequities only awaken her to the feminist she has always fundamentally been - that is, a person who understands that her first responsibility is to her own humanity. That's why, for my money, the first known use of the word 'feminist' is still the best, appearing in an 1895 book review: a woman who 'has in her the capacity of fighting her way back to independence.” ThinkingWayFirstsPersonsStillsBookUseHumanityFightingSocialResponsibilityKnownFeminismTruth IsCapacityIndependenceInjusticeFeministReactionsReviewsAppearingIndignitySocial InjusticeBook Review Author:Susan Faludi
“Lifting one's gaze to the living God, the guarantor of our freedom and of truth, is a premise for arriving at a new humanity. Nowadays, in a special way, the world needs people capable of proclaiming and bearing witness to God who is love, and consequently the one light which in the end, illumines the darkness of the world and gives us strength to live and work” PeopleWorldWayNeedsGivingEndsLightHumanityDarknessSpecialTruth IsCapableWitnessPremisesLiftingArrivingProclaimingBearing Witness Author:Pope Benedict XVI
“Truth is better for humanity than ignorance, lies, or spin. And it's more interesting.” LyingHumanityInterestingIgnoranceTruth Is Author:Steve Sailer
“The truth is that climate change is presenting the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced.” HumanityChallengesTruth IsClimateClimate ChangePresenting Author:Al Gore
“A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.” HumansHumanityOrderIndividualInterestCreationDevelopmentTruth IsPureUniversalSubjectiveSubjectivityUnforeseen Author:Alain Badiou
“When people get up on the stage and say, "I've got AIDS," or "I'm in recovery," gosh, it's hard for them. It's like that story touches every person's story. You know, they open their entire humanity up. Storytelling is very important in life. Telling the truth is critical. It's like, again, the melody. The melody of jazz music is the truth, for me.” PeopleImportantHumanityTruth IsMusic IsJazzAidsStorytellingRecoveryTelling The TruthMelodyJazz Music Author:Cecil Williams
“Even if we profess to be non-judgmental, there's an inherent judgmentality and hierarchy in which the spiritual person, the conscious person, the mindful person, is more developed than the typical truck driver or waitress or heroin addict. This is a red flag, another problem built into the concept of spirituality. The truth is that every person you meet is in some way more developed than you are, and that the multiple modes of development that a human being can pursue require the whole of humanity to pursue. We're in this together. Enlightenment is a collective effort.” ProblemTogetherSpiritualHumanitySpiritualityEffortTruth IsEnlightenmentConsciousMultipleAddictTruckHeroinWaitressTruck Driver Author:Charles Eisenstein
“My experiences of men has neither disposed me to think worse of them nor be indisposed to serve them: nor, in spite of failures which I lament, of errors which I now see and acknowledge, or the present aspect of affairs, do I despair of the future. The truth is this: The march of Providence is so slow and our desires so impatient; the work of progress so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged. It is history that teaches us to hope.” ThinkingMenMeanLongDesireHumanityIndividualTeachProgressTruth IsDespairAspectErrorsAffairWaveAcknowledgeSpiteMarchImmenseProvidenceDiscouragedImpatientAdvancingLament Author:Robert E. Lee
“The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.” StatesChristianHumanityCoursesTruth IsTenEvidenceContraryCommandmentsForbiddenGloomTen CommandmentsLiberality Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Although she had resisted this knowledge all her life, had lived determinedly in the future focused there by ambition, she understood at last that this was the real condition of humanity: The dance of life occurred not yesterday or tomorrow, but only here at the still point that was the present. This truth is simmple, sel-evident, but difficult to accept, for we sentimentalize the past and wallow in it, while we endure the moment and in every waking hour dream of the future.” StillsRealMomentsDreamLastsPastHumanityDifficultHoursAcceptingConditionsTomorrowTruth IsAmbitionUnderstoodEndureFocusedYesterdayWakingEvident Book:The Taking: A Novel Source: The Taking: A Novel