“There is no truth which cannot be given in fifty words; the truth is always concise.”
Source: Beyond Apollo (1972), Chapter 16
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Vol. IV, p. 172
Posthumous publications, The Collected Works
Context: Questioner: Can one love truth without loving man? Can one love man without loving truth? What comes first?
Krishnamurti: Love comes first. To love truth, you must know truth. To know truth is to deny truth. What is known is not truth. What is known is already encased in time and ceases to be truth. Truth is an eternal movement, and so cannot be measured in words or in time. It cannot be held in the fist. You cannot love something which you do not know. But truth is not to be found in books, in images, in temples. It is to be found in action, in living. The very search for the unknown is love itself, and you cannot search for the unknowable away from relationship. You cannot search for reality, or for what you will, in isolation. It comes into being only in relationship, only when there is right relationship between man and man. So the love of man is the search for reality.
“Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.”
Source: Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960), p. 531
“The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.”
Source: God Emperor of Dune
Rep. Greg Steube Rejects Democrat Colleagues’ Dismissal of Scripture:’ It’s Pertinent to the Discussion’ https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/03/02/rep-greg-steube-rejects-democrat-colleagues-dismissal-of-scripture-its-pertinent-to-the-discussion/ (2 March 2021)
12 October 1859 (p. 388)
1831 - 1863, Delacroix' 'Journal' (1847 – 1863)
“When truth cannot make itself known in words, it will make itself known in deeds.”
"Should he have spoken?", The New Criterion (September 2006), p. 22; also in The Roger Scruton Reader (2009) edited by Mark Dooley