Sublime

It is a myth that we seek truth for its own sake; we seek truth in order to live coherent lives.

couldn’t waste another minute on “artifice and bullshit.”

the naked truth must be so simple and comprehensible that one can impart it to all in its true form without any admixture of myth and fable (a pack of lies)-in other words, without masking it as religion.

In the end, we must come to see that truth itself is the highest good, that truth itself is the greatest expression and manifestation of love. Ultimately, love and truth are identical; they are like two sides of a coin. You can’t have truth without love, and you can’t have love without truth.

For Descartes, truth was a matter of life and death. He perfectly embodies this singular and powerful aspect of mathematical psychology: his relationship to the truth is physical, almost carnal: I constantly felt a burning desire to learn to distinguish the true from the false, to see my actions for what they were, and to proceed with confidence th

Always tell the real truth, or they’ll never know the real you, so you’ll never really feel loved.

Honesty is a gift we can give to others. It is also a source of power and an engine of simplicity. Knowing that we will attempt to tell the truth, whatever the circumstances, leaves us with little to prepare for. Knowing that we told the truth in the past leaves us with nothing to keep track of. We can simply be ourselves in every moment.