“We have become too civilized to grasp the obvious. For the truth is very simple. To survive you often have to fight, and to fight you have to dirty yourself. War is evil, and it is often the lesser evil. Those who take the sword perish by the sword, and those who don't take the sword perish by smelly diseases.” WarFightingEvilSimpleViolenceTruth IsObviousDirtyCivilizedBehalfLesser Evil Author:George Orwell
“It is precisely for the reason that Truth is utterly simple, basic, elementary and totally obvious, that it is completely overlooked.” ReasonSimpleTruth IsObviousOverlooked Author:Ramesh S Balsekar
“If you can reach just 10 percent of the population, you can begin to reach a tipping point; that's where true social movements take place - it's a numbers game. And when you reach that number, the truth becomes obvious and empires of injustice crumble and fall.” IfsFallGamesSocialNumbersMovementTruth IsPercentInjusticePopulationObviousEmpiresTippingSocial MovementsTipping Point Author:Louie Psihoyos
“Whenever we think of the body as a vessel for artistic ideas, we somehow always focus on the surface of the body. But the truth is that there is no surface of the body independent of its interior. It's obvious that the outside of the body is always connected to the inside, to thought processes and to an internal anatomy.” ThinkingFocusTruth IsIndependentObviousArtisticVesselAnatomy Author:Valie Export
“I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.” IfsKnowsMenProblemTruthScienceLyingAcceptingTaughtTruth IsArgumentIncludingSimplicityObviousResistanceConclusionEaseComplexityThreadSkepticismFabricColleaguesSimplestExplainingDelightedWovenPhilosophy Of ScienceScientific TruthFalsityQuestioning BeliefsAccepting The TruthI Know The Truth Author:Leo Tolstoy
“And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?” CrimeTruth IsObviousDestroyedReign Book:Pascal Pensées Source: Pascal Pensées