“Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.”
Les doutes sont fâcheux plus que toute autre chose.
Act III, sc. v
Le Misanthrope (1666)
“A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.”
[The Autumn of the Patriarch, 2006 [1976], HarperCollins, 978-0-06-088286-0, 254] translated from El Ontoño del Patriarica (1975) by Gregory Rabassa
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Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IV
“[A]n attractive lie is always going to be more popular than a hard truth.”
Dave Sim
(1956) Canadian cartoonist, creator of Cerebus
No. 11, p. 27
Following Cerebus (2004-)
“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
Baba (58)
Source: The Kite Runner (2003)
“Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.”
Oscar Wilde
(1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)
“Truth is not to be bought any more than love can be bought.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti
(1895–1986) Indian spiritual philosopher
Second Talk in Poona (10 September 1958) http://www.jkrishnamurti.com/krishnamurti-teachings/view-text.php?tid=588&chid=4907&w=%22Please+let+us+be+clear+on+this+point%22, J.Krishnamurti Online, JKO Serial No. 580910, Vol. XI, p. 20
Posthumous publications, The Collected Works
Context: Please let us be clear on this point — that you cannot by any process, through any discipline, through any form of meditation, go to truth, God, or whatever name you like to give it. It is much too vast, it cannot possibly be conceived of; no description will cover it, no book can hold it, nor any word contain it. So you cannot by any devious method, by any sacrifice, by any discipline or through any guru, go to it. You must await it, it will come to you, you cannot go to it. That is the fundamental thing one has to understand, that not through any trick of the mind, not through any control, through any virtue, any compulsion, any form of suppression, can the mind possibly go to truth. All that the mind can do is be quiet but not with the intention of receiving it. And that is one of the most difficult things of all because we think truth can be experienced right away through doing certain things. Truth is not to be bought any more than love can be bought.
