“Some truths are truths, no matter who says them.”
Patricia Briggs (1965) American writer
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“Truth is simple. They who say that truth is complicated deceive themselves, and the truth is not in them.”
Light (1919), Ch. XVI - De Profundis Clamavi
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Le vrai est trop simple, il faut y arriver toujours par le compliqué.
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“Man, life was complicated. But the truth was simple. He was her home. He was where she belonged.”
Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist
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“Poets are all who love, who feel great truths,
And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.”
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Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) Indian spiritual philosopher
"Fifth Talk in Bombay 1950 (12 March 1950) http://www.jkrishnamurti.com/krishnamurti-teachings/view-text.php?tid=352&chid=4672&w=%22Truth+is+not+something+in+the+distance%22, J.Krishnamurti Online, JKO Serial No. 500312, The Collected Works, Vol. VI, p. 134 <br class="br">Posthumous publications, The Collected Works <br class="br">Context: Truth is not something in the distance; there is no path to it, there is neither your path nor my path; there is no devotional path, there is no path of knowledge or path of action, because truth has no path to it. The moment you have a path to truth, you divide it, because the path is exclusive; and what is exclusive at the very beginning will end in exclusiveness. The man who is following a path can never know truth because he is living in exclusiveness; his means are exclusive, and the means are the end, are not separate from the end. If the means are exclusive, the end is also exclusive. So there is no path to truth, and there are not two truths. Truth is not of the past or the present, it is timeless; the man who quotes the truth of the Buddha, of Shankara, of Christ, or who merely repeats what I am saying, will not find truth, because repetition is not truth. Repetition is a lie.