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Authentizität – Hintergrund und Definition
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Authentizität (gr. αυθεντικός authentikós "echt") bedeutet Echtheit im Sinne von "als Original befunden".
Wissende, die sich auf ihren Glauben und ihre eigene echte Erfahrung stützen, wirken einladend, denn innewohnendes Verdienst und die Kraft der Wahrheit sind anziehend. Sie erklären und berichten, ohne Absicht zu überreden oder zu überzeugen.
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Sich selbst treu sein
Ölporträt eines Rabbiners,~1640-1645
Niederländischer Maler Rembrandt van Rijn
(1606-1669) Ausstellungsort Getty Center
Rabbi Zussaya lag im Sterben.
Seine Schüler versammelten sich um sein Bett.
Rabbi Zussaya bekannte:
Wie ist das möglich?,
fragten die Schüler überrascht.
Du hast ein vorbildliches Leben geführt.
Du hast uns wie Moses aus der Wildnis geführt.
Du hast wie der weise Salomon gerichtet.
Sanft antwortete der Rabbi:
"Wenn ich meinen Schöpfer treffe, wird Er mich nicht fragen,
ob ich wie Moses oder Salomon war.
Vielmehr wird er mich fragen: Warst du Zussaya?"
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Zitate zum Thema Echtheit / Authenticity
Zitate allgemein
Empfehlungen
Apell
- Ihr müsst verstehen, dass es sehr schwer ist, ehrlich zu sich selbst zu sein. Die Menschen fürchten sich sehr da-
vor, die Wahrheit zu sehen. ⚡ Georges I. Gurdjeff (1866-1949) griechisch-armenischer Esoteriker, Komponist, Choreograph,
Komponist, Lehrer des "Vierten Wegs", Schriftsteller, zitiert in: Heinz-Peter Röhr (*1949) deutscher Pädagoge, Suchtpsychothe-
rapeut, Autor, Narzissmus. Dem inneren Gefängnis entfliehen, S. 56, Patmos Verlag, 2001, 5. Auflage 2016
Schlussfolgerungen
- Denn wenn man nicht sagen kann, dass man nicht meint, was man sagt, weil man dann nicht wissen kann, dass andere nicht wissen können, was gemeint ist, wenn man sagt, dass man nicht meint, was man sagt, kann man auch nicht sagen, dass man meint, was man sagt, weil dies dann entweder eine überflüssige und verdächtige Verdopplung ist oder die Negation einer ohnehin inkommunikablen Negation. Niklas Luhmann (1927-1998) deutscher Soziologe, transdisziplinärer Sozialwissenschaftler, Gesellschaftstheoreti-
ker, Begründer der soziologischen Systemtheorie, Autor, Die Gesell-
schaft der Gesellschaft, Kapitel "Zur Nicht-Kommunizierbarkeit von Aufrichtigkeit", S. 311, Suhrkamp, 1. Ausgabe 1997
- Es ist im Nein-Sagen eine ungeheure Kraft und manchmal scheint mir, sie ist so groß, dass man von ihr allein leben könnte.
Elias Canetti (1905-1994) schweizerisch-britischer Aphoristiker bulgarischer Herkunft, Bühnen- und Romanschriftsteller, Sachbuch-
autor, Literaturnobelpreisträger, 1981, Aufzeichnungen, S. 424, geschrieben 1942-1994, erstveröffentlicht 1965-1999, Carl Hanser Verlag, München, 2015, 1. September 2016
- Aus Selbstachtung entspringt notwendig auch Selbstgefühl, Selbstvertrauen und Selbständigkeit.
Wer sich aber nicht selbst achten kann und doch Ansehen in der Welt gewinnen will, der muss notgedrungen alle
Mittel der Verstellung, Kriecherei, Schmeichelei aufbieten, um sein Ziel zu erreichen. Menschen dieser Art, deren
es leider viele gibt, sind die gemeinschädlichsten im Staate!
Friedrich von Bodenstedt (1819-1892) deutscher Theaterintendant, Übersetzer, Schriftsteller; zitiert in: Gute Zitate
Einsichten
- Es gibt wenig aufrichtige Freunde. Die Nachfrage ist auch gering.
Marie Freifrau von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) österreichische Aphoristikerin, Erzählerin, Novelistin, Schriftstellerin, Ge-
sammelte Schriften. Erster Band. Aphorismen. Parabeln, Märchen und Gedichte, S. 76, Gebrüder Paetel Verlag, Berlin, 1893, Fünfhundert Aphorismen, 1911, Verlag Der Wissenschaften, 18. August 2017
- Ihr müsst wissen: Buddhisten diskutieren nicht über die Überlegenheit und die Unterlegenheit der jeweiligen Lehren und unterscheiden nicht zwischen Oberflächlichkeiten und Tiefe im Dharma [Anm.: in der Lehre]. Es geht ihnen nur darum zu erkennen, ob die Praxis echt oder unecht ist. Manche sind durch Gräser, Blumen, Berge und Flüsse in den Strom der Buddha-Wahrheit eingetreten, andere wiederum empfingen und bewahrten das Buddha-Siegel, indem sie die Erde, die Steine, den Sand und die Kieselsteine intuitiv erfassten. Ferner ist der weite und große Sinn in noch rei-
cherem Maß gegenwärtig als die zehntausend Phänomene: In einem einzigen Staubkorn offenbart sich das Drehen des großen Dharma-Rades. Dogen Zenji (1200-1253) japanischer spiritueller Lehrer des japanischen Zen-Buddhismus, zitiert in:
Yudo J. Seggelke, deutscher Buddhist, Zen-Meister, Autor, ZEN Schatzkammer. Einführung in Dogens Shobogenzo Band 1, Kapi-
tel 1 "Grundprinzipien des Shobogenzo. Ein Gespräch über die Praxis des Zazen (Bendowa)", Dona-Verlag, Berlin, 1. April 2009
Heiliger Pillendreher [Scarabaeus sacer],
Symbol für Auferstehung und den Kreislauf der Sonne
Aufgenommen am 19. September 2007
- Der Charakter [eines Menschen] ist wie ein Baum, und der Ruf wie sein Schatten. Der Schatten ist, was wir von einer Sache denken, der Baum ist das Wirkliche. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) politisch ermordeter 16. US-amerikanischer Präsident (1861-1865), Lincoln's Own Stories, Harper & Brothers, 1912
- Ein echtes Gespräch ist eins, in dem jeder der Partner den anderen, auch wo er im Gegensatz zu ihm steht, als diesen existierenden Anderen wahrnimmt, bejaht und bestätigt; nur so kann der Gegensatz zwar gewiss nicht aus der Welt geschafft, aber menschlich ausgetragen und der Überwindung zugeführt werden. Dankesrede von Martin Buber (1878-1965) österreichisch-jüdischer Religionsforscher und -philosoph, "Das echte Gespräch und
die Möglichkeiten des Friedens" anlässlich der Überreichung des Frie-
denspreises des Deutschen Buchhandels, 1953, zitiert in: Martin Buber, Nachlese, S. 229, Heidelberg 1965
- In einer chaotischen Welt, […] in der sich die Menschen gleich-
zeitig in entgegengesetzte Richtungen bewegen, ist Echtheit das machtvollste Paradigma, das unsere Aufmerksam-
keit gewinnen wird. Videopräsentation von Watts Wacker (1953-2017) US-amerikanischer Trendforscher, Referent, Autor, Watts Wacker: Internationally Acclaimed Mind Reading Comedian, gelöschter YouTube Film, Minute 6:12, 6:24 Minuten Dauer, eingestellt
16. Oktober 2009
- Sich selbst zu verändern, glaubwürdig zu werden, Menschen zu überzeugen und den verschiedenen Formen von Ausbeutung und Terror entgegenzuwirken, das mag in manchen Augenblicken schwer erscheinen; und dennoch
gibt es keine Alternative. Rudi Dutschke (1940-1979) deutscher marxistischer Soziologe, politischer Aktivist, Wortführer der westdeutschen und West-Berliner Studentenbewegung der 1960er Jahre, zitiert in: Artikel Rudi-Dutschke-Straße – Kochstraße, präsentiert von der überregionalen deutschen Zeitung Die Tageszeitung (taz), Adolf Muschg, 17. Dezember 2004
- Entgegen einem weiterverbreiteten Missverständnis haben alle genannten Autoren aber ebenfalls deutlich gesehen, dass in diesen Situationen das Wahre, Echte, Authentische, Eigentliche sich nicht einfach so zeigt, wie der Kern einer Nuss, wenn man ihre Schalen entfernt. Der Mensch gleicht eher einer Zwiebel als einer Nuss, er hat eigentlich keinen Wesenskern. Löst man wie bei einer Zwiebel Schale um Schale der Äußerlichkeiten ab, gelangt man damit zwar zu einem Inneren, aber letztlich stoßen wir dort auf (oder besser: in) eine Leere. Friedrich Nietzsche und die Psychoanalyse, aber auch schon Meister Eckhart, Michel de Montaigne, Jean-Paul Sartre oder Hannah Arendt haben uns klargemacht, dass im Inneren des Menschen zwar die Wahrheit zu Hause ist – aber es ist vor allem diese Wahrheit: dass ein oder gar der Mensch kein feststehendes Wesen hat, dass er ein Noch-nicht-Bestimmtes, Unferti-
ges ist, dass sein Leben einer Bestimmung offensteht, solange er lebt, ja, dass sein Leben darin besteht, immer neu anfangen zu können, initiativ zu sein. Ein Urbild, ein Original, mit dem sich die personale Realität eines Men-
schen vergleichen lassen würde, gibt es nicht. Was ein Mensch ist, ist nicht vorherbestimmt, vielmehr wird er
das gewesen sein, was er angesichts der Umstände seines Lebens aus sich machte. Dies macht deutlich, dass
wir uns auf uns selbst als einem bestimmten Wesen nur im Modus eines Entwurfs beziehen können. Es ist dieser
Entwurf von sich, der Entwurf seiner jeweiligen Seinsmöglichkeiten, an dem wir die Echtheit, Eigentlichkeit und
Authentizität eines Menschen bemessen. Artikel der deutschen Journalreihe Der blaue Reiter, Hefttitel "Echt sein. Die
Sehnsucht nach Authentizität", Artikel Werde, der du bist. Echtheit, Authentizität, Eigentlichkeit, Andreas Luckner, der blaue
reiter Verlag, Dr. Siegfried Reusch, S. 8, Heft 24, Erscheinungsdatum unbekannt
- Echt sein heißt, aufrecht gehen, sichtbar werden in dem Grau, sich erinnern an Träume und Hoffnungen und nicht aufgeben im Kampf gegen die Mittelmäßigkeit. Echt werden ist wie eine
Heimkehr zu uns selbst. Wieder da sein, wo wir begonnen ha-
ben, das Paradies noch einmal bewohnen, diesmal bewusst. Uns nicht mehr vertreiben lassen von der Seite Gottes, der in uns wohnt. Ulrich Schaffer (*1942) deutscher Fotograf, Schriftsteller, ...weil du echt sein willst!, Ernst Kaufmann, 1. Auflage 1990
- Dort, wo die Aufrichtigkeit beginnt, selbstlos zu werden, erhält die Wahrheit ihr schönstes Gesicht. Elfriede Hablé (1934-
2015) österreichische Musikerin, Aphoristikerin, zitiert in: Gute Zitate
- Das einzig Echte an manchen Menschen ist ihre Falschheit.
Werner Mitsch (1936-2009) deutscher Aphoristiker, zitiert in: Gute Zitate
- Ehrlichkeit ist so gefährlich, dass sie einem das Herz brechen kann.
Margaret Ellis Millar (1915-1994) kanadisch-US-amerikanische Autorin von Kriminalromanen, zitiert in: Gute Zitate
- Aus Angst vor Liebesentzug sind wir in unserem Verhalten anderen gegenüber oft feig und bestechlich. Aufrichtig
und gerade haben wir aber die besseren Freunde. H. Bauer, Quelle unbekannt
- Dem Mutigen lächelt das Glück. Redeweisheit aus England, zitiert in: Aphorismen.de
Literaturzitate
- Wenn das, was du gefunden hast, echt ist, dann wird es nie vergehen und du kannst eines Tages zurückkehren. Wenn es jedoch ein Lichtmoment war, wie die Explosion eines Sterns, dann findest du beim Wiederkommen nichts mehr vor. Aber du hast eine Lichtexplosion erlebt und das allein hat sich bereits gelohnt.
Paulo Coelho (*1947) brasilianischer esoterischer Erfolgsautor, Der Alchemist, Verlag Peter Erd, 1988, Diogenes Verlag, 2003
Gedichte
- Dies über alles: Sei dir selber treu,
Und daraus folgt, so wie die Nacht dem Tage,
Du kannst nicht falsch sein gegen irgendwen.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) englischer Schauspieler, Bühnendichter, Dramatiker,
Lyriker, Figur Polonius in der Tragödie Hamlet. Prinz von Dänemark, 1. Aufzug, 3. Szene, ~1602
- Ursprünglich eignen Sinn
Laß dir nicht rauben!
Woran die Menge glaubt,
Ist leicht zu glauben.
Natürlich mit Verstand
Sei du beflissen;
Was der Gescheite weiß,
Ist schwer zu wissen.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) deutscher Universalgelehrter, Bühnendichter, Schriftsteller, Hofenberg, Gedichte. Ausgabe letzter Hand, Zahme Xenien IX, Cotta, Stuttgart und Tübingen, 1827, Zenodot Verlagsgesellschaft, 30. April 2016
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- Ich will den Himmel nicht von dir
und die Sterne von dort schon gar nicht.
Sie gehören nicht dir. Und nicht mir.
Ich will keine Artigkeiten und schönen Worte,
wenn sie nicht echt sind.
Und sag mir, was soll ich mit deiner hübschen,
sorgfältig hergerichteten Fassade,
wenn sie doch nicht hält.
Ich will DICH, wie du wirklich bist.
UND DAS IST VIEL!
Kristiane Allert-Wybranietz (1955-2017) deutsche Schriftstellerin, Liebesgedicht
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Zitate zum Thema Wahrheit
Jesus sprach: Wer [die Wahrheit] sucht, soll nicht aufhören zu suchen, bis er findet;
und wenn er findet, wird er erschrocken sein;
und wenn er erschrocken ist, wird er verwundert sein,
und er wird König sein über das All.
Ihr werdet die Wahrheit erkennen, und die Wahrheit wird euch frei machen! Johannes 8, 32 (NT)
Ich bin der Weg, denn "ich bin" die Wahrheit und das Leben. Ich bin der Weg, die Wahrheit und das Leben.
Keiner kommt zum Vater denn durch m-ich. Johannes 14, 6 (NT)
Gott ist Geist, und die ihn anbeten, die müssen ihn im Geist und in der Wahrheit anbeten. Johannes 4, 24 (NT)
Gegen Gottes Wahrheit können wir ohnehin nichts ausrichten, wir können nur für sie eintreten.
Johannes, 2. Korinther 13, 8 (NT)
Denn das Wort Gottes [Wahrheit] ist lebendig und kräftig und schärfer als jedes zweischneidige Schwert,
und dringt durch, bis es scheidet Seele und Geist, auch Mark und Bein, und ist ein Richter der Gedanken
und Sinne des Herzens. Hebräer 4, 12 (NT)
Wer die Wahrheit kennt und doch nicht danach handelt, ist wie ein Mensch, der in den Spiegel sieht
und sein Gesicht vergisst. Jakobus 1, 23 (NT)
Bin ich also euer Feind geworden, weil ich euch die Wahrheit sage? Brief an die Galater 4, 16 (NT)
Wenn ein Blinder und einer, der sieht, beide im Finsteren sind, sind sie nicht voneinander unterschieden.
Wenn (aber) das Licht kommt, wird der, der sieht, das Licht sehen, und der Blinde wird im Finsteren bleiben.
Phillippusevangelium, Vers 56, entstanden ~3. Jht., gefunden bei Nag Hammadi in Ägypten, Codex 2, 1945
Die Wahrheit kam nicht nackt in die Welt, sondern sie kam in Sinnbildern und Abbildern. Sie [sc. die Welt]
wird sie [sc. die Wahrheit] nicht anders empfangen [können].
Phillippusevangelium, Vers 67, entstanden ~3. Jht., gefunden bei Nag Hammadi in Ägypten, Codex 2, 1945
Die Wahrheit sprießt aus der Erde hervor. Psalm 85, 12 (AT)
Persönliche Bekenntnisse
- Wir haben die Wahrheit gesucht, wir haben sie nicht gefunden. Morgen reden wir weiter.
Zugesprochen Sokrates (469-399 v. Chr.) altgriechischer vorchristlicher Philosoph, zitiert in: Kolumne von Dieter Schupp, Sokrates:
Wie mir scheint, präsentiert von der Publikation seniorweb.ch, 30. März 2017
- Ich glaube, dass unbewaffnete Wahrheit und bedingungslose Liebe das letzte Wort in der Wirklichkeit haben werden.
Das ist der Grund, weshalb Recht, auch wenn es vorübergehend unterliegt, stärker ist als das triumphierende Böse.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) US-amerikanischer Baptistenpastor, Aktivist, afro-amerikanischer Bürgerrechtler, Rede
zur Verleihung des Friedensnobelpreises, Oslo, Norwegen, 10. Dezember 1964
- Søren Kierkegaard weist darauf hin, dass sich die Wahrheit nur enthüllt, wenn man sie mit der Intensität der Verrücktheit angeht – keine Gefangenen! – und ich stehe in dieser Tradition.
Allerdings bedauere ich es, dass sich manche Leute von diesem leidenschaftlichen Ansatz und Stil verärgern lassen.
Auf der emotionalen Ebene fühle ich mich überhaupt nicht wohl mit Konflikten – ich wünsche mir wirklich, dass sich
alle mögen. Aber bedauerlicherweise schafft das Ringen um Wahrheit auch Feinde. Und vielleicht sind meine
Ansichten völlig falsch, vielleicht richtig. So oder so, schafft das Gegner, und ich habe lernen müssen, damit klarzu-
kommen. Interview mit ⚡ Ken Wilber (*1949) US-amerikanischer mystischer Philosoph, Vordenker des 3. Jahrtausends, transper-
sonaler Bewusstseinsforscher, Entwickler der Integralen Theorie, Autor, Bodhisattvas müssen zu Politikern werden, präsentiert
von der aufgelösten deutschen Publikation "Transpersonale Perspektiven", Frank Visser (*1958) niederländischer Religionspsy-
chologe, ehemaliger Theosoph, Internet-Werbungsstratege, Autor, Heft 5/98, Dezember 1998
- Heilig ist zwar Laktanz, der die Kugelgestalt der Erde leugnete;
heilig Augustinus, der die Kugelgestalt zugab, aber die Antipoden leugnete;
heilig das Offizium unserer Tage, das die Kleinheit der Erde zugibt, aber ihre Bewegung leugnet.
Aber heiliger ist mir die Wahrheit.
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) deutscher Naturphilosoph, evangelischer Theologe, Mathematiker, Astronom, Astrologe, Autor,
Opus magnum Astronomia nova, 1609
- Ich glaube, dass die Erkenntnis der Wahrheit nicht in erster Linie eine Sache der Intelligenz, sondern des Charakters ist. Dabei ist das Wichtigste, dass man den Mut hat, nein zu sagen und den Befehlen der Machthaber und der Öffentlichen Meinung den Gehorsam zu verweigern; dass man nicht länger schläft, sondern menschlich wird; dass man aufwacht,
und das Gefühl der Hilflosigkeit und Sinnlosigkeit verliert.
Erich Fromm (1900-1980) deutsch-US-amerikanischer Sozialpsychologe, Psychoanalytiker, humanistischer Philosoph, Autor, Rainer Funk, Herausgeber, Erich Fromm Gesamtausgabe in zwölf Bänden, "Humanistisches Credo", 20. Absatz, 1969, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt (DVA), 1. Dezember 1999
Empfehlungen
- Übe dich in der Kunst, hässliche Wahrheiten in annehmbarer Weise zu sagen. Lebensweisheit von Rev. Rosalyn L. Bruyere (*1946) US-amerikanische Energieheilerin, Aurasichtige, spirituelle Lehrerin, weiße Medizinfrau
- Sage die Wahrheit und immer wieder die Wahrheit. Wenn du die Wahrheit auf der tiefsten Ebene aussprichst, die dir zugänglich ist, findest du Hilfe überall. Wenn du der Wahrheit treu bleibst, siehst du, wo deine Persönlichkeit dem Mit-
teilen dieser Wahrheit im Weg steht. Dann hast du wieder den Moment der Wahl, deiner persönlichen Vorliebe oder
dem Größeren zu folgen. Gangaji (*1942) US-amerikanische spirituelle Advaita-Lehrerin, Autorin, Referenz: Audiodialog (engl.) Episode 21: Telling the Truth, 28:00 Minuten Dauer, eingestellt 18. Juni 2014
Vater Zeit rettet die Wahrheit vor Falschheit und Neid
Wallace Collection, London, England, 1737
François Lemoyne (1688-1737) französischer Maler
- Fürchtet nicht den Pfad der Wahrheit wegen der geringen Zahl von Menschen, die ihn begehen.
Robert Francis Kennedy (1925-1968) US-amerikanischer Justizmini-
ster, Senator, jüngerer Bruder des ermordeten US-Präsidenten John F. Kennedy, Gangster drängen zur Macht [The Enemy Within], Scherz, München, 1964, Deutsche Buch-Gemeinschaft, Berlin, Taschenbuch,
1. Januar 1965, 3. Auflage 3. Oktober 1968
- Leben Sie die Wahrheit Ihres Herzens. Es ist einfacher, die Wahrheit zu kennen, als sie zu spüren, und es ist einfacher, sie zu spüren, als sie zu leben. ⚡ David Deida (*1958) US-ameri-
kanischer Sexualpsychologe, unabhängiger Forscher, Lehrer, Autor zu Mann/Frau-Beziehungsthemen, Nackt zur Wahrheit: Ein spiritueller Begleiter für Mutige durch Leben und Tod, Liebe und Sex, Kamp-
hausen, 4. Auflage 16. Juli 2007
Schlussfolgerungen
- Echtsein ist keine Gabe, die man entweder hat oder nicht hat. Echtsein ist beständiges Üben – eine bewusste Ent-
scheidung, wie man leben will. Echtsein ist eine Anhäufung von Entscheidungen, die es täglich zu treffen gilt. Echtsein ist die Wahl, sich zu zeigen und realistisch zu sein, die Entschei-
dung, ehrlich zu sein, die Entscheidung, sein wahres Selbst sichtbar werden zu lassen. Dr. Brené Brown (*1965) US-ame-
rikanische Professorin für Sozialarbeit, Scham-, Verletzlichkeit- und Empathieforscherin, Universität Houston, Referentin, Autorin, The Gifts of Imperfection. Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are [Die Gaben des Unvollkommenseins. Lass die Vorstellung los, wie du angeblich sein sollst und umarme das, was du bist], S. 49, Hazelden, Erstausgabe 27. August 2010
Appelle
- Wir müssen davon überzeugt sein, dass das Wahre die Natur hat, durchzudringen, wenn seine Zeit gekommen, und
dass es nur erscheint, wenn diese gekommen, und deswegen nie zu früh erscheint, noch ein unreifes Publikum findet.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) deutscher Philosoph des Deutschen Idealismus, Schriftsteller, Phänomenologie des Geistes, 1807, S. 52, Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1970
- Ihr müsst verstehen, dass es sehr schwer ist, ehrlich zu sich selbst zu sein. Die Menschen fürchten sich sehr davor,
die Wahrheit zu sehen. ⚡ Georges I. Gurdjeff (1866-1949) griechisch-armenischer Esoteriker, Kom-ponist, Choreograph, Leh-
rer des "Vierten Wegs", Schriftsteller, zitiert in: Heinz-Peter Röhr (*1949) deutscher Pädagoge, Suchtpsychotherapeut, Autor, Nar-
zissmus. Dem inneren Gefängnis entfliehen, S. 56, Patmos Verlag, 2001, 5. Auflage 2016
Schlussfolgerung
- Die Wahrheit [nämlich] ist dem Menschen zumutbar.
Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) österreichische Lyrikerin, Prosaschriftstellerin, Dankrede bei der Entgegennahme des "Hörspielpreises der Kriegsblinden", Bundeshaus in Bonn, 17. März 1959, Werke (Essays) Band 4, S. 277, Piper Verlag, München, 1978
Einsichten
- Wer die Wahrheit sucht, der sucht Gott, ob es ihm klar ist oder nicht. Edith Stein (1891-1942) deutsche Philosophin, Nonne, Märtyrerin († KZ Auschwitz-Birkenau), Heilige der katholischen Kirche, zitiert in: Aphorismen.de
- Wir kommen nicht umhin, an folgender Wahrheit, sowohl zu scheitern als sie auch zu würdigen: Das Leben ist kein zu lösendes Problem, sondern ein zu lebendes Rätsel. Lebensweisheit von M. Scott Peck (1936-2005) US-amerikanischer Psy-
chiater, Psychotherapeut, Schriftsteller, zitiert in: Zitate von M. Scott Peck, präsentiert von Zitate berühmter Personen
- Die Welt ist nicht da, um verbessert zu werden. Auch ihr seid nicht da, um verbessert zu werden. Ihr seid aber da, um ihr selbst zu sein.
Ihr seid da, damit die Welt um diesen Klang, um diesen Ton, um diesen Schatten reicher sei.
Sei du selbst, so ist die Welt reich und schön!
Sei nicht du selbst, sei Lügner und Feigling, so ist die Welt arm und scheint der Verbesserung bedürftig.
Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) deutsch-schweizerischer Dichter, Schriftsteller, Nobelpreisträger für Literatur, 1946, Eigensinn macht Spaß, Insel Verlag, 13. Auflage 11. März 2002
- Denn solange der Mensch dieser Wahrheit nicht gleicht, solange wird er diese Rede nicht verstehen. Denn es ist eine unverhüllte Wahrheit, die da gekommen ist aus dem Herzen Gottes unmittelbar. Meister Eckhart (Eckhart von Hochheim) (1260-1328) deutscher Mystiker, dominikanischer Theologe, Philosoph, Hardy Eidam, Ilka Thom, Ulrich Spannaus, Herausgeber,
Wer ist Meister Eckhart? Homo doctus – homo sanctus, Predigt 52, Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog, Erfurt, 2003
- Wahre Worte sind nicht nett [schön],
nette [schöne] Worte sind nicht wahr.
Laotse (604-531 v. Chr.) chinesischer Weiser, Philosoph, Begründer des Taoismus, Tao te King, Spruch 81, 800-200 v. Chr.
- Gott ist unendliche Möglichkeit. Deshalb ist die Wahrheit dynamisch und der Irrtum ihrer Kinder immer gerechtfertigt.
Sri Aurobindo [Aurobindo Ghose] (1872-1950) indisch-britischer hinduistischer Philosoph, Mystiker, Yogi, Meister, Freiheitskämpfer, Dichter, Thoughts and Glimpses, Sri Aurobindo Ashram Publications, Mai 1916, August 1917, 1971, Taschenbuchausgabe
1. Januar 1973, Dezember 1987
- Der Wein ist stark, der König ist stärker, die Weiber sind noch stärker, aber die Wahrheit ist am allerstärksten.
Martin Luther (1483-1546) deutscher Professor der Theologie, protestantischer Reformator, Bibelübersetzer, Dr. Johannes Aurifaber [Vimariensis] (1519-1575) deutscher Mathematiker lutherischer Theologe, Reformator, Tischreden, Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Erstausgabe, 1566, 12. September 2016
- Die Wahrheit war immer nur eine Tochter der Zeit.
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) italienischer Universalgelehrter, Genie, Erfinder, Architekt, Anatom, Geologe, Botaniker, Ingenieur, Naturphilosoph, Bildhauer, Maler, Schriftsteller, Pariser Manuskripte, "Manuskript M", Folio 58, 1492
- Groß ist die Wahrheit, größer aber, vom praktischen Gesichtspunkt, ist das Verschweigen der Wahrheit.
⚡ Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) britisch-US-amerikanischer Kulturkritiker, Humanist, Pazifist, Visionär, parapsychologisch-philoso-
phischer Schriftsteller, dystopischer Roman Schöne neue Welt, Insel Verlag, 1932, "Vorwort", 1946, Verlag Das Neue Berlin, 1978,
S. Fischer Verlag, 2018
- Besser, es gibt Skandale, als dass die Wahrheit zu kurz kommt.
Gregor der Große [Gregorius, Papst Gregor I.]] (540-604) bedeutendes Oberhaupt der katholischen Kirche, jüngster der vier
großen lateinischen Kirchenlehrer der Spätantike, Schriftsteller, zitiert in: Aphorismen.de
- Eine Lüge ist bereits dreimal um die Erde gelaufen, bevor sich die Wahrheit die Schuhe anzieht.
Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910) US-amerikanischer Humorist, Freimaurer, Schriftsteller, zitiert in: Gutzitiert
- Zwei Wahrheiten können einander nie widersprechen. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) italienischer Physiker, Mathematiker, Astronom, Philosoph, widerrief vor dem römisch-katholischen Inquisitionstribunal, 1992 rehabilitiert, zitiert in: Melissa Giovagnoli, Angels in the workplace. Stories and inspirations for creating a new world of work, 1999
- [Übertragen] Das Gegenteil einer trivialen Wahrheit ist einfach falsch.
Das Gegenteil einer großen Wahrheit ist auch wahr. Niels Bohr (1885-1962) dänischer Quantenphysiker, Nobelpreisträger
für Physik, 1922, zitiert in: Hans Bohr, Stefan Rozental (1903-1994), Niels Bohr. His Life and Work as Seen by his Friends and Colleagues, Kapitel "Mein Vater", North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1967
- Im Kopenhagener Institut, wo in jenen Jahren eine Reihe junger Physiker aus verschiedenen Ländern zu Diskussio-
nen zusammenkamen, pflegten wir uns in unseren Nöten oft mit Scherzen zu trösten, unter denen das alte Sprich-
wort von den zweierlei Wahrheiten beliebt war. Zu der einen Art Wahrheit gehören so einfache und klare Feststel-
lungen, dass die Behauptung des Gegenteils offensichtlich nicht verteidigt werden könnte. Die andere Art, die soge-
nannten "tiefen Wahrheiten", sind dagegen Behauptungen, deren Gegenteil auch tiefe Wahrheit enthält.
Aage Bohr, S. Hellmann, Herausgeber, F. Vieweg, Übersetzer, Atomphysik und menschliche Erkenntnis I. Aufsätze und Vorträge
aus den Jahren 1933-1955, S. 66, 1964
- Wir leben in einer Kultur, die völlig zerfiele, wenn die Wahrheit gesagt würde.
Ronald D. Laing (1927-1989) britisch-schottischer Psychiater, Quelle unbekannt
- Wer die Wahrheit sagt, wird früher oder später dabei erwischt.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) irischer Dramatiker, Dichter, Romanschriftsteller, zitiert in: Paul Wertheimer, Herausgeber, Übersetzer, Weisheiten von Oscar Wilde, Wiener Verlag, ~1910; auch zitiert in: Aphorismen.de
- Die Wahrheit erkennen wir immer erst dann, wenn wir mit ihr absolut nichts mehr anzufangen vermögen.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) irischer Dramatiker, Dichter, Romanschriftsteller, zitiert in: Aphorismen.de
- Eine Wahrheit hört auf, wahr zu sein, wenn mehr als einer an sie glaubt.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) irischer Dramatiker, Dichter, Romanschriftsteller, zitiert in: Aphorismen.de
- Wie durch Erklärung sanft man an den Blitz gewöhnt das Kind, so auch die Wahrheit mählich dämmen muss, sonst wären alle blind. Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) US-amerikanische Dichterin, Walter A. Aue, deutscher Übersetzer, zitiert in: brindinpress.com, 2010
- Es gibt die Wirklichkeit, und an der ist nicht zu rütteln.
Wahrheit aber, nämlich in Worten ausgedrückte Meinungen über das Wirkliche, gibt es unzählige, und jede ist eben-
so richtig wie sie falsch ist. Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) deutsch-schweizerischer Dichter, Schriftsteller, zitiert in: zitate rund um die redekraft, präsentiert von der Publikation wortkraft
- Eine Wahrheit kann erst wirken, wenn der Empfänger für sie reif ist. Nicht an den Wahrheiten liegt es daher, wenn
die Menschen noch so voller Unweisheit sind. Christian Morgenstern (1871-1914) deutscher Übersetzer, Dichter, Schrift-
steller, Lebensweisheit, 1910; Stufen. Eine Entwicklung in Aphorismen und Tagebuch-Notizen, 1913, posthum erschienen 1918, Piper Verlag, München, 1922
Quelle: Morgenstern, Stufen. Eine Entwicklung in Aphorismen und Tagebuch-Notizen, 1918 (posthum). 1910
- Wir müssen manchmal in den Abgrund des Elends stürzen, um die Wahrheit zu begreifen – so wie wir uns auf den Grund des Brunnens hinablassen müssen, um die Sterne zu sehen.
Essay von Vaclav Havel (1936-2011) tschechischer Schriftsteller, Mitglied des Club of Rome, erster postkommunistischer Präsi-
dent der Tschechoslowakei während der Samtenen Revolution (1989-1992), Präsident der Tschechischen Republik (1993-
2003), Versuch, in der Wahrheit zu leben. Von der Macht der Ohnmächtigen, Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek, 14. Januar 1980
- Je weiter sich eine Gesellschaft von der Wahrheit entfernt, desto mehr wird sie jene hassen, die sie aussprechen. Artikel von Selwyn Duke, US-amerikanischer Kolumnist, präsentiert von der Zeitung "Conservativ Crusader", 6. Mai 2009, zitiert
in: Artikel (engl.) Stopping truth at the border: banning Michael Savage from Britain, präsentiert von Blogspot Renew America; fälschlich zugeschrieben George Orwell [Eric Arthur Blair] (1903-1950) britischer Journalist, Essayist, Schriftsteller
- In einer Zeit der allgegenwärtigen Täuschung ist es ein revolutionärer Akt, die Wahrheit zu sagen.
Fälschlich zugeschrieben George Orwell [Eric Arthur Blair] (1903-1950) britischer Journalist, Essayist, Schriftsteller, zitiert
in: Falschzitate
- Die Wahrheit ist immer in der Minderheit. Und die Minderheit ist immer stärker als die Mehrheit, weil sich im All-
gemeinen jene in der Minderheit befinden, die wirklich eine Haltung einnehmen, wohingegen die Stärke einer Mehr-
heit Täuschung ist. Sie bildet sich aus Gruppierungen, die keine Meinung vertreten – und deshalb, sobald es offen-
bar wird, dass die Minderheit stärker ist, augenblicklich deren Auffassung übernehmen [...]. Währenddessen gesellt
sich die Wahrheit wiederum zu einer neuen Minderheit.
Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) dänischer existentialistischer Philosoph, Theologe, Schriftsteller, Theodor Haecker, Übersetzer,
Die Tagebücher (1834–1855) in zwei Bänden, 1850, S. 203, Brenner-Verlag 1923
- Man hat für die Wahrheit alle möglichen Definitionen gegeben, die die Frage nur noch mehr verkompliziert haben. In Wirklichkeit ist es unmöglich zu sagen, was sie ist, denn sie existiert nicht als solche. Nur die Liebe und die Weisheit existieren und es ist die Vereinigung der Liebe mit der Weisheit, welche die Wahrheit zum Vorschein bringt. Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov (1900-1986) bulgarischer spiritueller Meister, Philosoph, Pädagoge, Alchemist, Mystiker, Magus, As-
trologe, Die Wahrheit, Frucht der Weisheit und der Liebe, PDF, S. 18, [1992], Prosveta Verlag, Rottweil, 2009
Mund der Wahrheit, Rom, 2004
- Alle Wahrheit durchläuft drei Stufen.
- Zuerst wird sie lächerlich gemacht oder verzerrt.
- Dann wird sie bekämpft.
- Und schließlich wird sie als selbstverständlich angenommen.
- So oft eine neue überraschende Erkenntnis durch die Wissenschaft gewonnen wird, ist
- das erste Wort der Philister: es sei nicht wahr;
- das zweite: es sei gegen die Religion;
- und das dritte: so etwas habe Jedermann schon lange vor-
her gewusst.
Wilhelm Raabe (1831-1910) deutscher Erzähler, Romanschriftsteller des poetischen Realismus, zitiert in: Eckhardt Meyer-Krentler, Arbeitstechniken Literaturwissenschaft, S. 75, W. Fink, München, 3. Auflage 1993; Referenz: Karl Hoppe, Wilhelm Raabe, S. 89, Göttingen, 1968
- Es ist das übliche Schicksal neuer Wahrheiten, dass sie als Ketzerei beginnen und als Aberglaube enden.
⚡ Thomas Henry Huxley [Darwins Bulldogge] (1825-1895) britischer Bio-
loge, Bildungsorganisator, Hauptvertreter des Agnostizismus, Unterstützer des Empirismus David Humes und der Evolutionstheorie Charles Darwins, zitiert in: Aphorismen.de
- Der große Feind der Wahrheit ist oftmals nicht die vorsätzliche, ausgeheckte und unredliche Lüge, sondern der hart-
näckige, überzeugende und wirklichkeitsblinde Mythos. Zu oft halten wir an den Klischees unserer Vorfahren fest. Wir unterwerfen alle Fakten einer Palette von vorgefertigten Auslegungen. Wir genießen die Bequemlichkeit, uns der Mei-
nungen zu bedienen, ohne die Unannehmlichkeit, nachdenken zu müssen. Rede von John F. Kennedy (1961-1963) politisch ermordeter 35. US-Präsident (1917-1963), Yale Universität, New Haven, 11. Juni 1962
- Wahrheit, die zu weit du verfolgen willst und jagen,
ist, eh' du dich's versiehst, in Irrtum umgeschlagen.
Friedrich Rückert [Freimund Raimar] (1788-1866) deutscher Übersetzer arabischer, hebräischer, indischer und chinesischer Dich-
tung, Lyriker, Die Weisheit des Brahmanen. Gesammelte Gedichte, Band II, Erlangen, 1836
- Das sind die Weisen, die durch Irrtum zur Wahrheit reisen.
Die bei dem Irrtum verharren, das sind Narren.
Friedrich Rückert [Freimund Raimar] (1788-1866) deutscher Übersetzer arabischer, hebräischer, indischer und chinesischer Dich-
tung, Lyriker, Rückert, Gedichte. Pantheon, Fünftes Bruchstück. "Zahme Xenien. Vierzeilen", Erstdruck 1843, S. 408, Gesammelte
Gedichte, Band II, Erlangen, 1836
- Die Wahrheit ist grausam, aber man kann sie lieben, und sie macht denjenigen frei, der sie liebt.
George Santayana (1863-1952) spanischstämmiger US-amerikanischer Philosoph, Literaturkritiker, Dichter, Romanschriftsteller, Little Essays, S. 107, Constable, 1921, Nabu Press, 17. January 2012; zitiert (engl.) in: BrainyQuote
- Wahrheit ist das Kind der Zeit, nicht der Autorität. Bertholt Brecht (1898-1956) deutscher Theaterdirektor, Lyriker, Dramati-
ker, einflussreicher Bühnenschriftsteller, Leben des Galilei, 1939, edition suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main, 1963
- Wer die Wahrheit nicht kennt, der ist bloß ein Dummkopf.
Wer die Wahrheit kennt und sie eine Lüge nennt, der ist ein Verbrecher.
Bertholt Brecht (1898-1956) deutscher Theaterdirektor, Lyriker, Dramatiker, einflussreicher Bühnenschriftsteller, episches Thea-
terstück Leben des Galilei, S. 71, 1948
- Die Wahrheit, die du aussprichst, hat weder Vergangenheit noch Zukunft. Sie ist, und das ist alles, was sie zu sein braucht. Richard Bach (*1936) US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller, Illusionen. Die Abenteuer eines Messias wider Willen, Ka-
pitel "Lehrbuch für den Messias. Hinweise für die fortgeschrittene Seele", Ullstein Taschenbuch, 1. Juni 1989
- Wer seine Meinung nie zurückzieht, liebt sich selbst mehr als die Wahrheit.
Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) französischer Moralist, zitiert in: Manfred Behrend, Haben wir die Lüge in unserer DNA?, S. 84, Engeldorfer Verlag, Leipzig, 2017; zitiert in: Aphorismen.de
- Die Verwechslung von Wahrheit und Gewissheit ist nicht bloß ein philosophisches Problem von begrenzter prak-
tischer Bedeutung, sondern eine äußerst reale Gefahr.
Winfried Berner (*1953) deutscher Diplom-Psychologe, Sprecherzieher, 2002; zitiert in: Artikel Rationale Konsensfindung.
Gründe statt Gruppendynamik, präsentiert von Die Umsetzungsberatung, aktualisiert 24. Juli 2017
- Ungläubigen die Wahrheit predigen, heißt Blinden schöne Dirnen weisen.
Andreas Gryphius (1616-1664) deutscher Dichter, Sonettdichter, Dramatiker des Barock, zitiert in: Gute Zitate
- Die Wahrheit ist grenzenlos, sie kann nicht konditioniert, sie kann nicht auf vorge-
gebenen Wegen erreicht und daher auch nicht organisiert werden. Deshalb sollten
keine Organisationen gegründet werden, die die Menschen auf einen bestimmten Pfad führen oder nötigen. Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986) indischer spiritueller Lehrer, Theosoph, ausgerufen von der Theo-
sophischen Gesellschaft als "Maytreya", Philosoph, Autor, Rede vor 3000 Mitgliedern anlässlich der Auflösung der für Krishna-
murti gegründeten Organisation "Order of the Star in the East", deren Vorsitzender er war, 3. August 1929 zitiert in: Kocku von
Stuckrad, Was ist Esoterik?, S. 214-215, C.H. Beck, München, 2004
- Zweier Zeugen Mund tut Wahrheit kund. Redensart in der Rechtswissenschaft
- Die Wahrheit ist ein selten Kraut;
noch seltner, wer es gut verdaut. Deutsches Sprichwort
- Bevor du den Pfeil der Wahrheit abschießt, tauche die Spitze in Honig. Arabisches Sprichwort
- Kindermund tut Wahrheit kund. Volksweisheit
- Nach dem Wein folgt die wahre Rede. Weisheit aus China
- Bist du betrunken, sagst du die Wahrheit. Weisheit aus Persien
Literaturzitate
- Schädliche Wahrheit, ich ziehe sie vor dem nützlichen Irrtum.
Wahrheit heilet den Schmerz, den sie vielleicht uns erregt.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) deutscher Universalgelehrter, Bühnendichter, Schriftsteller, Vier Jahreszeiten – Herbst, 1796
- Eine schmerzliche Wahrheit ist besser als eine Lüge.
Fälschlich zugeschrieben Thomas Mann (1875-1955) deutscher Schriftsteller, zitiert in: Falschzitate
- Man muss das Wahre immer wiederholen, weil auch der Irrtum um uns herum immer wieder gepredigt wird, und
zwar nicht von einzelnen, sondern von der Masse. In Zeitungen und Enzyklopädien, auf Schulen und Universitä-
ten, überall ist der Irrtum oben auf, und es ist ihm wohl und behaglich, im Gefühl der Majorität, die auf seiner Sei-
te ist. Oft lehret man auch Wahrheit und Irrtum zugleich, und hält sich an letzteren.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) deutscher Universalgelehrter, Bühnendichter, Schriftsteller, zitiert in: Johann Peter Eckermann (1792-1854) deutscher Dichter, Fritz Bergemann, Herausgeber, Eckermann. Gespräche mit Goethe in den letzten Jahren seines Lebens, Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1836, Insel Verlag, 11. Auflage 4. Juli 1981, Deutscher Klassiker Verlag, Berlin 2011
- Wer darf das Kind beim rechten Namen nennen?
Die Wenigen, die was davon erkannt,
Die töricht genug ihr volles Herz nicht wahrten,
Dem Pöbel ihr Gefühl, ihr Schauen offenbarten,
Hat man von je gekreuzigt und verbrannt.
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- Das Wahre ist das Ganze. Es schließt den Ernst, den Schmerz, die Geduld und Arbeit des Negativen ein. Das Wahre ist die Einheit, insofern diese Einheit Prozess ist, d.h. insofern sich die Einheit in Verschiedenheit und Unterschied bis zum Widerspruch entfaltet hat. Das Wahre ist das Ganze: der Widerspruch.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) deutscher Philosoph des Deutschen Idealismus, Schriftsteller, Hauptwerk Phänome-
nologie des Geistes, 1807, Vorrede "Das Wahre", Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1970
- Einer hat immer Unrecht, aber mit zweien beginnt die Wahrheit.
Einer kann sich nicht beweisen, aber zweie kann man bereits nicht widerlegen.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) deutscher klassischer Gelehrter, Philologe, Kulturkritiker, Philosoph des Nihilismus, Schriftsteller, Werke in drei Bänden, Band II, Die fröhliche Wissenschaft, Ernst Schmeitzner, Chemnitz, 1882, Carl Hanser Verlag, München, 1954/1956, Insel Verlag, 18. April 2000
- Der Wahrheit dienen wenige in Wahrheit, weil nur wenige den reinen Willen haben gerecht zu sein und selbst von diesen wieder die wenigsten die Kraft, gerecht sein zu können.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) deutscher klassischer Gelehrter, Philologe, Kulturkritiker, Philosoph des Nihilismus, Schriftsteller, Werke in drei Bänden, Band 1, Unzeitgemäße Betrachtungen, Zweites Stück, Kapitel 6, S. 137, Erstdruck der Sammlung, E. W. Fritzsch, Leipzig, 1893, Carl Hanser Verlag, München, 1954/1956, Insel Verlag, 18. April 2000
- Von jeder Wahrheit ist das Gegenteil ebenso wahr! Nämlich so: eine Wahrheit lässt sich immer nur aussprechen und in Worte hüllen, wenn sie einseitig ist. Einseitig ist alles, was mit Gedanken gedacht und mit Worten gesagt wer-
den kann, alles einseitig, alles halb, alles entbehrt der Ganzheit, des Runden, der Einheit. [...] Die Welt selbst aber,
das Seiende um uns her und in uns innen, ist nie einseitig.
Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) deutsch-schweizerischer Dichter, Schriftsteller, Nobelpreisträger in Literatur, 1946, Siddharta.
Eine indische Dichtung, Fischer, Berlin, 1922, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1969, 1974, 1998
- Wir suchen die Wahrheit, finden wollen wir sie aber nur dort, wo es uns beliebt.
Marie Freifrau von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) österreichische Aphoristikerin, Erzählerin, Novelistin, Schriftstellerin, Gesam-
melte Schriften. Erster Band. Aphorismen. Parabeln, Märchen und Gedichte, S. 57, Gebrüder Paetel Verlag, Berlin, 1893, Fünf-
hundert Aphorismen, 1911, Verlag Der Wissenschaften, 18. August 2017
- Wenn es je ein Mensch wagen würde, alles, was er auf dem Herzen hat auszusprechen, sein wirkliches Erlebnis,
alles, was wirklich seine Wahrheit ist, niederschreiben, dann, glaube ich, ginge die Welt in Trümmer, würde in Stük-
ke zersprengt, und kein Gott, kein Zufall, kein Wille, könnte je wieder die Stücke, die Atome, die unzerstörbaren
Elemente zusammensetzen, auf denen die Welt stand. Henry Miller (1891-1980) US-amerikanischer Maler, Schriftsteller,
Roman Wendekreis des Krebses [Tropic of Cancer] [1934] Rowohlt Taschenbuch, Reinbek bei Hamburg, 1953
- Die beste und sicherste Tarnung ist immer noch die blanke und nackte Wahrheit. Die glaubt niemand!
Max Frisch (1911-1991) Schweizer Architekt, Schriftsteller, Theaterstück Biedermann und die Brandstifter, Uraufführung im Schauspielhaus Zürich, 29. März 1958
Dichtung
- Sag Wahrheit ganz, doch sag sie schräg −
Erfolg liegt im Umkreisen
Zu strahlend tagt der Wahrheit Schock
Unserem Begreifen […]
Opernlyrik
- Papagenos Frage: "Mein Kind, was werden wir nun sprechen?"
Paminas Antwort: "Die Wahrheit, die Wahrheit, sei sie auch ein Verbrechen!" Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) österreichischer Komponist zur Zeit der Wiener Klassik, Oper in zwei Aufzügen Zauberflöte, Wien, 30. September 1791
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General quotes
Jesus: Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am
come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in
law against her mother in law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household. He that loveth father or
mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of
me. And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. He that findeth his life shall
lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it. Matthew 10, 34-39 (NT)
Apostle Paul:
Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them. Romans 2, 14-15 (NT) New International Version (NIV)
Personal avowals
- I am interested in recognizing that fine line between relational passion and avoidant intensities.
There were moments when my passionate nature was a direct reflection of my aliveness, but there were so many moments when I was just using intensity and drama as a coping strategy, a way to actually hide from a deeper ex-
perience of the moment, some kind of addictive anti-mellow drama that procrastinated my relationship with reality. Somewhere below the dramas was my real life, waiting in the wings to be lived. It was scary, but it called to me, reminding me that there is more to this life than a sidestepping of the inner world. This struggle for authenticity
lives at the heart of the soulshaping journey.
There is the avoidant life, and then there is the one that is vulnerably true.
Jeff Brown, M.A., Canadian lawyer, psychologist, body-centered psychotherapist, author, Facebook comment, 8. February 2011
- And eventually, and that’s the thing about the artist’s unconscious, eventually, you break through to a place where you're neither male nor female, not black, white, red, brown or yellow; you're not Christian, Muslim, Jew, Hindu, or Sikh, you're not Vietnamese, or American, or Albanian, or Serbian. You're human. And if you write from that authenticity, then you
can draw those truths up through vessels, character vessels, quite differently from yourself.
Robert Olen Butler (*1945) US American fiction writer, Pulitzer Prize recipient, 1993, story collection A Good Scent from a
Strange Mountain. Stories, Henry Holt, 1992, Grove Press, 5. April 2001
Recommendations
- Your soul's voice is a transmission only you can give.
Emerging women,
➤ do not be afraid of your power,
➤ let your voice transmit all of who you are. […]
[D]are to speak Goddess, not English.
Life longs to hear you.
Video presentation by Sera Beak, US American scholar of comparative world religions, spiritual activist (redvolutionary), men-
tor, speaker, author, Sera Beak – In All Trembling Fears and Trembling Boldness, sponsored by Emerging Women Live confe-
rence, New York City, 2013, YouTube film, minutes 30:52, 38:15, 38:57 minutes duration, posted 7. December 2014
- Do be true to yourself, whether it's bad doesn't matter.
The important thing – you have to copy while you're studying.
And culture – each of us – is like one pearl added to another to make a chain. We each contribute to the other.
And that's all right.
But once you're on your own, do that which comes from within. And I feel this very strongly.
Beatrice Wood [Esteemed American Artist] (1893-1998) US American artist, studio potter, author, lecture to fellow potters,
cited in: biography About Beatrice Wood, S. 3, presented by the Beatrice Wood Center For The Arts, undated
- It is tragic how few people ever "possess their souls" before they die. "Nothing is more rare in any man," says
Emerson, "than an act of his own." It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are some one
else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish Freemason, alche-
mist, member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, dramatician, poet, writer, epistolary work De Profundis, letter
written during imprisonment, S. 63, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York and London, published post mortem 1. February 1905
- In an age where there is much talk about "being yourself" I reserve to myself the right to forget about being my-
self, since in any case there is very little chance of my being anybody else. Rather it seems to me that when
one is too intent on "being himself" he runs the risk of impersonating a shadow.
Thomas Merton (1915-1968) Anglo-American Catholic Trappist monk, mystic student of comparative religion, social activist,
poet, writer, Lawrence Cunningham, editor, Spiritual Master. The Essential Writings by Thomas Merton, essay titled "Day
of a Stranger", S. 214ff, quote S. 215, Paulist Press, New York, 1. January 1991
- Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel. Why?
Because whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel,
you're nobody-but-yourself.
To be nobody-but-yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else –
means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) US American painter, playwright, essayist, poet, author, George James Firmage, editor,
A Miscellany, passage "A Poet's Advice", S. 13, 1958, Liveright, revised edition 24. July 2018
- Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Don't worry about appearing
sentimental. Worry about being unavailable; worry about being absent or fraudulent.
Anne Lamott (*1954) US American recovering conversed alcoholic, bestselling author, Bird by Bird. Some Instructions on
Writing and Life, Pantheon Books, 5. May 1994, Anchor, 1st edition 1. September 1995
- How to write authentically:
- Think of yourself as a revolutionary. Take risks.
- Show your personality.
- Express your ideas, no matter how zany.
- Break a few writing rules.
- Consider your moral obligation as a writer.
Question/appeal
- Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman statesman, political theorist, consul, lawyer, constitutionalist, philosopher, orator, author, collection of letters to close friend Titus Pomponius Atticus, Epistulae ad Atticum [Letters to Atticus] chapter VII, xi, 68-44 BC
Appeal
- People can reasonably be expected to accept the truth.
Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) Austrian poet, author, acceptance speech for the award "Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden", Bundeshaus, Bonn, Germany, 17. March 1959; Works (Essays) Volume 4, S. 277, Piper, Munich, 1978
Conclusions
- He who cares not to offend cannot be honest.
Thomas Paine [US Founding Father] (1737-1809) British US American Enlightenment philosopher, intellectual, inventor, atheist, radical, revolu-
tionary, pamphleteer, author, open letter A Response to Cato's Fourth through Seventh Letters, presented by The Forrester, Pennsylvania Journal, 24. April 1776; cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote
- An honest man, who also has a certain amount of courage, will never use self-knowledge as a surrogate for life.
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, founder of a new school of depth psychology, author, The Ques-
tion of Psychological Types. The Correspondence of C. G. Jung and Hans Schmid-Guisan, 1915-1916, S. 1, 2012, 2015
- I’m going to tell you something: thoughts are never honest. Emotions are.
Albert Camus (1913-1960) French Algeria-born French philosopher, journalist, author, Nobel laureate in literature, 1957, Note-
books, 1951-1959, Volume 3, 1962, Ivan R. Dee, 1. June 2008, Rep Tra edition 16. October 2010
- Authenticity is not something we have or don't have. It's practice – a conscious choice of how we want to live.
Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It's about the choice to show up and be real.
The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen. Brené Brown, Ph.D., LMSW (*1965) US American
shame, vulnerability, empathy researcher, Graduate College of Social Work, University of Houston, public speaker, author, The
Gifts of Imperfection. Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are S. 49, Hazelden, 1st edition
27. August 2010
- What is most lacking in the modern world of duplications and facsimiles, of endless information and intentional misinformation, is the authenticity that makes life truly meaningful and spiritually rewarding.
Michael Meade Mosaicvoices.org, US American storyteller, scholar of mythology, psychology, anthropology, ritualist, spokes-
man in the men's movement, author, Facebook comment, 6. September 2016
- As we strive to improve our game, a clear and firm sense of self is a compass that helps us navigate choices and progress toward our goals. When we're looking to change our game, a too rigid self-concept becomes an anchor
that keeps us from sailing forth. Article by Herminia Ibarra, Ph.D., US American professor of organizational behavior,
professor of leadership and learning, The Authenticity Paradox, presented by the bimonthly management magazine Harvard
Business Review (HBR), published by Harvard Business Publishing, January-February issue 2015
- The task of calling things by their true names, of telling the truth to the best of our abilities, of knowing how we
got here, of listening particularly to those who have been silenced in the past, of seeing how the myriad stories
fit together and break apart, of using any privilege we may have been handed to undo privilege or expand its
scope is each of our tasks. It's how we make the world.
Rebecca Solnit (*1961) US American culture historian, journalist, writer, The Mother of All Questions, Haymarket Books,
pocket book, 7. March 2017, cited in: Breaking Silence as Our Mightiest Weapon Against Oppression, presented by the
free weekly digest Brain Pickings, host Maria Popova (*1984) Bulgarian critic, blogger, writer, 20. March 2017
- Contrary to common understanding, a good man's actions are not always gentle. They may be ruthless, cold,
and dispassionate. A friend of mine once made a very profound statement when he said, "when people act overly
nice, I always wonder about their motives." Chin-Ning Chu, president of Asian Marketing Consultants, corporate trainer, consultant, lecturer, author, Thick Face, Black Heart. The Warrior Philosophy for Conquering the Challenges of Business and Life,
S. 22, Grand Central Publishing, reprint edition 1. October 1994
Insights
- The issue is not simply one of needing to save the world, but also of needing to solve the problem of loss of soul throughout the modern world. Part of what has been lost in the reckless rushing of modernity is the sense that
each life has an authentic interior that shelters important emotions as well as inherent purpose, and that the
dignity of existence includes a necessary instinct to unfold the unique story woven inside each living soul.
Michael Meade Mosaicvoices.org, US American storyteller, scholar of mythology, psychology, anthropology, ritualist,
spokesman in the men's movement, author, Facebook comment, 8. May 2017
- Our soul's voice reveals our deepest wisdom and our deepest wounds, which is why unleashing our soul's voice is often our deepest desire and our deepest fear. We ache to be self-expressed, to be authentic, to totally let 'er rip and yet we are terrified of being that vulnerable, that raw, that real. So we edit, shape or even shut up our unique soul's voice in order to be accepted, successful, and even loved. But deep down in our bellies, where our power burns the brightest, we know we cannot be of service, we cannot be free, we cannot truly come alive if we aren't sharing the truth of who we are.
Sera Beak, US American scholar of comparative world religions, spiritual activist (redvolutio-
nary), mentor, speaker, author, Facebook entry 12. December 2014
- For far too long we have been seduced into walking a path that did not lead us to ourselves.
For far too long we have said yes when we wanted to say no.
And for far too long we have said no when we desperately wanted to say yes. […]
When we don't listen to our intuition, we abandon our souls.
And we abandon our souls because we are afraid if we don't, others will abandon us.
Terry Tempest Williams (*1955) US American conservationist, activist, educator, writer, When Women Were Birds. Fifty-four Variations on Voice, Sarah Crichton Books, New York, 2012, Picador, reprint paperback issue 26. February 2013
- It is better to be disliked for who you are than to be liked for who you are not. How much easier to be authentic
than to pretend to be someone you are not. What a relief just to be. How clear and simple. How honest. How
real. The only thing you really have to share with anyone, anyway, is your own state of being.
Judith Indira Ann Parsons, US American angel reader, counselor, author, The Clear and Simple Way. A Book of Angel Lessons, Dandelion Books, 1. April 2004, 2007
- What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection. Oprah Winfrey (*1954) US American talk show
host, actress, visionary, billionaire, philanthropist, presented by the US American monthly magazine O, The Oprah Magazine,
cited in: Tuchy Palmieri, Oprah, in Her Words: Our American Princess, S. 87, Carl Palmieri, 2008
- In a world as chaotic as I described where people are moving in opposite directions at the same time the single
most powerful paradigm to get our attention is authenticity.
Video presentation by Watts Wacker (1953-2017) US American futurist, speaker, author, Watts Wacker: Internationally Acclai-
med Mind Reading Comedian, deleted YouTube film, minute 6:12, 6:24 minutes duration, posted 16. October 2009
- If you are dishonest, you are excluded from the individuation process.
If you are dishonest, you are nothing for your unconscious.
The Great Man will spit on you, and you will be left far behind in your muddle – stuck, stupid, and idiotic.
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, founder of a new school of depth psychology, author, R.F.C. Hull, editor, C.G. Jung Speaking. Interviews and Encounters, S. 359-364, Princeton University Press, December 1977, reprint edition
1. February 1987
- Authenticity is being in touch with yourself and being able to act up your awareness of self in relationship to the environment. So if I feel something I pay attention to that, if I don't I am in danger.
If a child is confronted with a dilemma that 'If I am authentic, express my feelings, then my attachment needs are threatened, because my parents can't handle it, because they are too stressed, de-
pressed, or traumatized themselves', then per force the child will automatically, but not consciously, suppress their
authenticity. So the suppression of gut feelings and authenticity is a coping mechanism. That means I am not lon-
ger in touch with my needs. I pay no longer attention to my feelings, my emotions. I won't know what I need. […]
It leads to an irresolvable tension between authenticity and attachment, that many children in our society are
faced with that results in their self-suppression. One of the possible outcomes is niceness as a coping mecha-
nism. […] The essential self [the inner voice] has not gone away and is calling to us and we don't feel right
when we betray it. Video interview by Gabor Maté, M.D. drgabormate.com (*1944) Hungarian-Canadian physician, addiction expert, speaker, author, Attachment, Disease, and Addiction, presented by the video producer Touch the Future, suppressed questions by host, recorded 2012, YouTube film, minute 20:00, 1:19:57 duration, 20. June 2016
- God is not in me, and God is not in you, but God is what is between us.
When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them. Martin Buber (1878-1965) Austrian-born Jewish religious researcher and philosopher, cited in: Moses L. Pava, Jewish Ethics
as Dialogue. Using Spiritual Language to Re-Imagine a Better World, S. 149, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
- A life truly lived constantly burns away veils of illusion, opening our eyes to our uniqueness.
A life truly lived constantly burns away what is no longer relevant, gradually reveals our essence, until, at last, we
are strong enough to stand in our naked truth.
Marion Woodman (1928-2018) Canadian Jungian analyst, women's movement figure, mythopoetic author, Jill Mellick, co-author, Coming Home to Myself. Reflections for Nurturing a Woman's Body and Soul. Daily Reflections for a Woman's Body and Soul,
S. 93, Conari Press, 1. May 1998, revised 31. May 2001
- Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) assassinated 16th US President (1861-1865), abolisher of slavery, Lincoln's Own Stories, Harper
& Brothers, 1912
Jonagold apples
- A derivative from the Greek 'charaxo,' meaning to engrave, 'character' makes reference to what is constant in a person, because it has been engraved upon one, and thus to behavioral, emotional and cognitive conditionings. […]
In the face of the lack of what he or she needs, the growing child has needed to manipulate, and we may say that character is, from one point of view, a counter-manipulative apparatus. Claudio Naranjo (1932-2019) Chilean psychiatrist, focused on integra-
ting psychotherapy and the spiritual traditions, co-developer of the en-
neagram, Character and Neurosis. An Integrative View, Gateways/
IDHHB, 1994
- Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.
Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910) US American humorist, Freemason, author, speech, 30. March 1901; cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote
- There is immense silent agony in the world, and the task of man is to be a voice for the plundered poor, to prevent the desecration of the soul and the violation of our dream of honesty.
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) Polish-born US American rabbi, leading Jewish theologian and philosopher of the 20th cen-
tury, The Reasons for My Involvement in the Peace Movement, 1972, submitted by the Shalom Center, editor, 8. September 2001; later included in Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity, pp. 224-226, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1996
The Insanity of Normality is programmed normopathy.
- I must make the important distinction between the rebel and the revolutionary. One is in ineradicable opposition to the other. The revolutionary seeks an external political change, "the overthrow or renunciation of one government or ruler and the substitution of another." The origin of the term is the word revolve, literally meaning a turnover, as the revolution of a wheel. When the conditions under a given government are insufferable some groups may seek to break down that government in the conviction that any new form cannot but be better. Many revolutions, however, simply substitute
one kind of government for another, the second no better than the first – which leaves the individual citizen, who has had to endure the inevitable anarchy between the two, worse off than before. Revolution may do more harm than good.
The rebel, on the other hand, is "one who opposes authority or restraint: one who breaks with established custom or
tradition." [...] He seeks above all an internal change, a change in the attitudes, emotions, and outlook of the people
to whom he is devoted. He often seems to be temperamentally unable to accept success and the ease it brings; he
kicks against the pricks, and when one frontier is conquered, he soon becomes ill-at-ease and pushes on to the new
frontier. He is drawn to the unquiet minds and spirits, for he shares their everlasting inability to accept stulti-
fying control. He may, as Socrates did, refer to himself as the gadfly for the state – the one who keeps the state
from settling down into a complacency, which is the first step toward decadance. No matter how much the rebel gi-
ves the appearance of being egocentric or of being on an "ego trip," this is a delusion; inwardly the authentic rebel
is anything but brash. Rollo May may-rollo (1909-1994) US American existential psychologist, author, Power and Inno-
cence. A Search for the Sources of Violence, chapter 11 "The Humanity of the Rebel", 1972
- Honesty is reached through the doorway of grief and loss. Where we cannot go in our mind, our memory, or our body
is where we cannot be straight with another, with the world, or with our self. The fear of loss, in one form or another,
is the motivator behind all conscious and unconscious dishonesties: all of us are afraid of loss, in all its forms, all of
us, at times, are haunted or overwhelmed by the possibility of a disappearance, and all of us therefore, are one short
step away from dishonesty. Every human being dwells intimately close to a door of revelation they are afraid to pass through. Honesty lies in understanding our close and necessary relationship with not wanting to hear the truth.
The ability to speak the truth is as much the ability to describe what it is like to stand in trepidation at this door, as it is
to actually go through it and become that beautifully honest spiritual warrior, equal to all circumstances, we would
like to become. Honesty is not the revealing of some foundational truth that gives us power over life or another or
even the self, but a robust incarnation into the unknown unfolding vulnerability of existence, where we acknowled-
ge how powerless we feel, how little we actually know, how afraid we are of not knowing and how astonished we are
by the generous measure of loss that is conferred upon even the most average life.
Honesty is grounded in humility and indeed in humiliation, and in admitting exactly where we are powerless. Honesty
is not found in revealing the truth, but in understanding how deeply afraid of it we are. To become honest is in effect to become fully and robustly incarnated into powerlessness. Honesty allows us to live with not knowing. We do not know the full story, we do not know where we are in the story; we do not know who is at fault or who will carry the blame in the end. Honesty is not a weapon to keep loss and heartbreak at bay, honesty is the outer diagnostic of our ability
to come to ground in reality, the hardest attainable ground of all, the place where we actually dwell, the living, brea-
thing frontier where there is no realistic choice between gain or loss.
David Whyte (*1955) US American poet, author, Consolations. The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words, section "Honesty", Many Rivers Press, 1. January 2015
Sweet oranges
- The healing begins with empathy, but the growth starts with honesty.
All healing begins with empathy, but growth starts with honesty.
Empathy is the massage, honesty is the [adjusting] chi-
ropractic "crack".
Self-responsible honesty is so rare. Video presentation by Kelly Bryson, MA, MFT, US American licensed therapist, trainer for the International Center for Nonviolent Communication, consultant, lecturer, author, Personal Growth Through Honesty NVC, O'ahu, Hawaii, YouTube film, minute 00:31 minute 1:08, 4:48 minute, 6:17 minutes duration, posted 25. November 2008
- [Great leaders of the past] had the capacity to take that lar-
ger question of "how things ought to be" into the future and
decide how they ought to be. Once they began to live as
though what ought to be was true, they had an authenticity
that was just compelling. Complexity theory would call it a strange attractor, a legitimacy, an authenticity. And then they talked about it. They never wavered, no matter what the ob-
stacle, or what the condemnation. And many of them died
because they couldn't live any other way. Some of them
were killed. [Socrates, Jesus] Interview with Dee Ward Hock (1929-2022) US American founder and CEO Emeritus of the VISA
credit card association, founder of non-profit organization The Chaordic Commons, Transformation by Design, presented by the dissolved US American magazine "What is Enlightenment?", Melissa Hoffman, issue 22, 2003
- The word "authentic" traditionally referred to any work of art that is an original, not a copy. When used to describe lea-
dership, of course, it has other meanings – and they can be problematic. For example, the notion of adhering to one
"true self" flies in the face of much research on how people evolve with experience, discovering facets of themselves
they would never have unearthed through introspection alone. And being utterly transparent – disclosing every single
thought and feeling – is both unrealistic and risky. Article by Herminia Ibarra, Ph.D., US American professor of organizational behavior, professor of leadership and learning, The Authenticity Paradox, presented by the bimonthly management magazine Harvard Business Review (HBR), published by Harvard Business Publishing, January-February issue 2015
- Research suggests that over 95% of our behavior is unconsciously motivated. This statistic speaks to the im-
portance of getting to know your shadow. The existence of these archetypes – driven by unmet needs and psychic wounds from childhood – are the causes of this unconscious behavior. [...].
Our mission is to strip away everything we’re not. Jung called the process of realizing this unique human individu-
ation. You separate yourself or individuate from the archetypes and behavioral patterns of your culture and society
to discover what you are – your Authentic Self. [...].
Self-liberation, then, is the goal of psychological work and it's why "know thyself" was an essential dictum in Ancient Greece. It brings us to personal freedom. It liberates us to our unconscious motivations and habits of the past. And
it is everyone's birthright.
- The whole force of urban-industrialism upon our tastes is to convince us that artificiality is not only inevitable, but
better – perhaps finally to shut the real and original out of our awareness entirely.
Theodore Roszak, Ph.D. (1933-2011) US American professor emeritus of history, author, cited in: Summary from "Light Years"
by J. M. Ferguson, Jr., presented by the Arizona Board of Regents, 1992
- The authentic self is the best part of a human being. It's the part of you that already cares, that is already passio-
nate about evolution. When your authentic self miraculously awakens and becomes stronger than your ego,
then you will truly begin to make a difference in this world. You will literally enter into a partnership with the
creative principle. ⚡ Andrew Cohen (*1955) resigned US American enlightenment guru (1986-2013), musician, founder of the
dissolved magazine What is Enlightenment? / EnlightenNext, author, cited in: Alma C. Lightbody, You're Not the Boss of Me. Dis-
cover Your Authentic Self, S. 7, iUniverse, 2012
Literary quotes
- Persons with character are as easy to spot as if they were a different color. Self-trust and the perception that virtue is enough is the essence of character. It is the natural tendency to defy falseness and wrong. It speaks the truth, and it
is just, generous, hospitable, temperate, despises pettiness, and is scornful of being scorned. Character persists when
the mood has passed in which the decision to act was made. Character displays undaunted boldness and a fortitude
that does not wear down or out.
When the soul is not master of one's reactions to the world, then that soul is everyone’s dupe. The person of character
is not for sale. He does not ask to dine nicely and to sleep warm. He does not need plenty; he can lose with grace. Cha-
racter is persistent. The person of character makes a choice based on honorable considera-
tions and sticks with it and, no matter what, does not weakly try to reconcile itself with the world.
The person of character knows that he is born into a state of war and his own well-being requires that he should not go
dancing for peace. Knowing this, he collects himself and neither defying nor dreading the thunder, he takes both his re-
putation and his own life in his hand, and, with perfect calm and politeness, dares the hangman and the mob by the ab-
solute truth of
his speech, and the correctness of his behavior. Toward all external evil, the person of character affirms his ability to
cope single-handedly with an infinite army of enemies. To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of heroism.
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character. The heroic character does not accept the conventional opinions and practices. He is a nonconformist. Acquiescence to the establishment indicates lack of character which must see the house built before they can comprehend the plan.
There is a class of individuals which are endowed with character, heroism, insight and virtue. They are usually recei-
ved with ill-will by the masses. No one can use common beliefs to understand these characters. They cannot be jud-
ged from glimpses. They need perspective, as a landscape. You cannot understand them by popular ethics nor by
simple observation of their actions. It is said that He who confronts the gods knows heaven. This is the nature of the
person of character.
The heroic character is a person of truth, master of his own actions, and expresses that mastery in his behavior, not
in any manner dependent and servile either on persons, or opinions, or possessions.
People of character are an energetic class, full of courage and of attempts which intimidate their paler brethren. Be-
ing up to the demands of their very nature, they can out pray saints, out general veterans and outshine all courtesy.
They are comfortable with pirates and scholars.
Money is not essential to the aristocrat, which is the true class of those of heroic character. Society among aristocrats
is mutually agreeable and stimulating. By swift consent, everything superfluous is dropped, everything graceful is re-
newed. Good manners are a formidable defense against the common people.The manners of the aristocrat are aped
by the commoners, but never understood.
Aristocrats never do as the common people do when following fashion. They understand that "fashion" is virtue gone
to seed. Aristocrats are sowers, people of fashion are reapers.
Each person's position in life depends on some symmetry in his inner makeup. A natural aristocrat will find his way to
those of his own kind. Those of good breeding and personal superiority readily find each other. A person should not
go where he cannot carry his whole sphere with him. A defect in manners or character is usually a defect in percep-
tions.
In addition to personal force and perception, an aristocrat is also good natured, generous and obliging.
Times of heroism are generally times of terror, but the day never dawns in which this element is without value. Latent
inner power is what we call Character, a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is con-
ceived of as a certain indemonstrable force, a Familiar of Genius, by whose impulses the hero is guided, but whose
counsels he cannot impart. Character is of a stellar and indiminishable greatness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) US American philosopher, Unitarian, lecturer, poet, essayist, Essays. First Series, chapter 8 "Heroism", Prudence, 1841, Charles E. Merrill Company, New York, 1907
- The authentic rebel knows that the silencing of all his adversaries is the last thing on earth he wishes: their extermi-
nation would deprive him and whoever else remains alive from the uniqueness, the originality, and the capacity for in-
sight that these enemies – being human – also have and could share with him. If we wish the death of our enemies,
we cannot talk about the community of man. In the losing of the chance for dialogue with our enemies, we are the
poorer. Rollo May may-rollo (1909-1994) US American existential psychologist, author, Power and Innocence. A Search for
the Sources of Violence, chapter 11 "The Humanity of the Rebel", 1972
- Don't bend;
don't water it down;
don't try to make it logical;
don't edit your own soul according to the fashion.
Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
Foreword by Anne Rice (1941-2021) US American bestselling author of metaphysical gothic fiction, erotica and Christian literature,
defining her impression of Franz Kafka's writing style, cited in: Franz Kafka (1883-1924) Austrian-Hungarian culturally influential German-language novelist, The Metamorphosis, A Hunger Artist, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories, start page 1, quote page
3, Schocken Books, New York, June 1995, Richer Resources Publications, paperback, 15. September 2009
- "Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit
"Sometimes", said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful.
"When you are Real you don't mind being hurt."
"Does it happen all at once, like being wound up," he asked, "or bit by bit?"
"You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby.
But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't under-
stand." Margery Williams (1881-1944) English-American author, children's novel The Velveteen Rabbit or How Toys Become Real, George H. Doran Company, 1922
Poem
- Don't apologize for the fire in your soul, for your authenticity.
Not to me. Not to anyone. It's how you were created.
It's who you are. You are a gift.
Your passion is a treasure. Honor it.
Humor
- There's one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him. If he says, "Yes," you know he is a crook.
Groucho Marx (1890-1977) US American comedian, entertainer, actor, cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote
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Quotes on truth
They who imagine truth in untruth, and see untruth in truth, never arrive at truth, but follow vain
desires. They who know truth in truth, and untruth in untruth, arrive at truth, and follow true desires.
Buddha (563-483 BC) Indian Avatar, teacher of enlightenment, central figure of Buddhism, Dhammapada,
anthology of Buddha's teachings, verses 11-12
To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, "If you hold to my teaching, you are really my
disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." John 8, 31-32 (NT)
Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a
sword. Matthew 10, 34 (NT)
For we can do nothing against the truth, but only for the truth. 2 Corinthians 13, 8 (NT)
Jesus said, Let him who seeks continue seeking until he finds.
And when he finds he shall be troubled.
And being troubled he shall marvel.
And he shall reign over the totality {and find repose}.
Gospel of Thomas verse 002, part of the Biblical apocrypha, 50-140, 350 AD, rediscovered 1945
Personal avowals
- When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall, always.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) Indian Hindu sage, spiritual activist leader, humanitarian, lawyer, nonviolent freedom fighter, cited in:
Top Five Mahatma Gandhi Quotes, presented by the Borgen Project
- I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) assassinated 16th US President (1861-1865), abolisher of slavery, cited in: Carl Jensen, Ph.D., Sto-
ries That Changed America. Muckrakers of the 20th Century, S. 23, Seven Stories Press, New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, 2000
- We are trying to make our own truth and global truth a seamless web.
The ends and means are a seamless web. Gloria Steinem gloriasteinem.com (*1934) leading US American feminist of the new women's movement, visionary and political activist, founder and editor of the feminist magazine Ms., journalist, writer, cited in:
Entry The ends and means are a seamless web., presented by the Lectures Bureau, 27. February 2020
- No one knows the truth. No one knows what, or who I am. And the longer it takes them to discover this, the more famous
I will be. Michael Jackson [King of Pop] (1958-2009) US American singer-songwriter, musician, recording artist, entertainer, dancer, philanthropist, Moonwalk. A Memoir, Doubleday, 1. February 1988, Crown Archetype, reIssued 13. October 2009
Recommendations
Namibische Landschaft
- Have confidence in the truth, although you may not be able to comprehend it, although you may suppose its sweetness to be bitter, although you may shrink from it at first. Trust in the Truth. [...] Have faith in the Truth and live it. Buddha Indian avatar, teacher of enlightenment, central figure of Buddhism, cited in: Lucien Stryk, editior, World of the Buddha. An Introduction to the Buddhist Lite-
rature, S. 125, Grove Press, 1st Evergreen edition 18. February 1994
- If you wish to see the truth then hold no opinions for or against anything.
To set up what you like against what you dislike is the disease of the mind.
When the deep meaning of things is not understood, the mind's essential peace is disturbed to no avail. Attributed to the Third Chinese Chán (Zen) Patriarch Jianzhi Sengcan (†606), poem Xinxin Ming
- Say not, "I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a truth."
Say not, "I have found the path of the soul." Say rather, "I have met the soul walking upon my path."
For the soul walks upon all paths.
The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed.
The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.
Khalil Gibran (1883-1931) Lebanese American painter, philosopher, poet, writer,
26 prose poetry essays The Prophet, Alfred A. Knopf, 1923, 1980, Laurier Books, 14. April 2003
- One can fool some men, or fool all men in some places and times, but one cannot fool all men in all places and ages.
[French original: "… ont pû tromper quelques hommes, ou les tromper tous dans certains lieux et en certains tems,
mais non pas tous les hommes, dans tous les lieux & dans tous les siécles."]
Jacques Abbadie, Traité de la Vérité de la Religion Chrétienne, S. 11, Chez Reinier Leers, Rotterdam, 1684 (MDCLXXXIV); attribu-
ted to Denis Diderot, cited in Fred R. Shapiro, The Yale Book of Quotations, section "Denis Diderot", S. 204, Yale University Press,
New Haven, 2006; falsely attributed to Abraham Lincoln [LoC 565] (1809-1865) assassinated 16th US President (1861-1865), abo-
lisher of slavery
- Tell all the Truth but tell it slant.
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth’s superb surprise […]
- Fear not the path of truth for the lack of people walking on it.
Attributed to Robert Kennedy (1925-1968) US American justice minister, Democratic senator from New York, civil rights activist,
younger brother of the 35th US president John F. Kennedy, unsourced, cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote
Appeals
- In all ages [the fate] has, to some extent, befallen all knowledge, and especially the weightiest knowledge of the truth,
to which only a brief triumph is allotted between the two long periods in which it is condemned as paradoxical or dis-
paraged as trivial. […] But life is short, and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) German philosopher, faculty member, author, The World as Will and Representation [Welt als
Wille und Vorstellung] 1819, expanded 1844, expanded 1859
- Let each man choose: will he remain a witting servant of the lies, or has the time come for him to stand straight as an honest man, worthy of the respect of his children and contemporaries? Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) Soviet and Russian historian, imprisoned in the Soviet gulag, dramatist, novelist, Nobel laureate in literature, 1970, The Solzhenitsyn Reader.
New and Essential Writings, 1947-2005, ISI Books, 2006, Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2nd edition 1. January 2009
Evolution
- Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors.
But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
Khalil Gibran (1883-1931) Lebanese American painter, philosopher, poet, writer, Robin H. Waterfield, editor, Juan R. I. Cole, trans-
lator, The Vision. Reflections on the Way of the Soul (Compass), first issued 1994. Penguin, 1. January 1998
Conclusion
- When you know that you know that you know you are not going to be removed from that truth.
Video interview with Dr. Isa Lindwall (†2009) US American founder of Releasing, Starr Talk, part 1 of 3, presented by host Robert
Bruce Starr, YouTube film, minute 5:21, 10:01 minutes duration, posted by lindwallreleasing 7. June 2009
Insight
- Life is a comedy. Each day is a wonderful adventure, full of fun and laughter. Most important, remember this: The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
Jamie Buckingham, religious book The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Make You Miserable, 1988
- Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) Indian Hindu sage, spiritual activist leader, humanitarian, lawyer, nonviolent freedom fighter, cited in: James Alexander, Best Mahatma Gandhi Quotes, S. 18, Crombie Jardine Publishing, Kindle edition 30. April 2014
- Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But
no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) Indian Hindu sage, spiritual activist leader, humanitarian, lawyer, nonviolent freedom fighter, cited in: Krishna Kripalani, compiler, editor, All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections, quote 62, Harijan, 24. November 1933, S. 65, Continuum International, New York, London, 2004
- Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.
Joan of Arc (1412-1431) French Catholic saint, martyr, national heroine of France, trial transcript, cited in: Frank Boott Goodrich, World Famous Women. Types of Female Heroism, Beauty, and Influence from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time, S. 126, 1881
- Wine is strong, the king stronger, women stronger still, but the truth is the strongest.
Titus Flavius Josephus [Joseph ben Matityahu] (37-100 AD) 1st-century Romano-Jewish historian, hagiographer of priestly and
royal ancestry, 20-volume historiographical work Antiquities of the Jews, Book 11 "The Book of Esdras", 93-94 AD
- No one in the world can change TRUTH! What we can do and should do is to seek truth and to serve it when we have found it. The real conflict is the inner conflict. Beyond armies of occupation and the hecatombs of extermination camps, there are two irreconcilable enemies in the depth of every soul: GOOD and evil, sin and LOVE. And what use are the victories on the battlefield if we ourselves are defeated in our innermost personal selves?
Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941) German Polish Franciscan friar, martyr, saint of the Catholic Church, cited in: Tom Dauria, Within a Presumption of Godlessness, S. 136, Archway Publishing, 2013
- Self-examination is the process of accountability to your soul [...]. It is far better to "become" your truth than to speak your truth. Self-examination is the practice of becoming your truth. Caroline Myss Myss.com (*1952) US American spiritual teacher, mystic, medical intuitive, bestselling author, Entering the Castle. An Inner Path to God and Your Soul, S. 66, Free Press, March 2007
- Everything can be taken from a man but [...] the last of the human freedoms – to choose one's attitude in any given
set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. Viktor Frankl (1905-1997) Austrian psychiatrist, psychotherapist, neurologist, Nazi death camp survivor, meaning researcher, founder of logotherapy, author, Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning. An Introduction to Logotherapy [1956], Beacon Press, United States, 1959, Washington Square Press, New York, 1963, Simon & Schuster, New
York, 1975, updated revised edition 1. December 1997, 1st paperback edition July 2000
- Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.
⚡ Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British prime minister of the United Kingdom during the 2nd World War (1940-1945) and (1951-1955), racist war criminal, cited in: Stanley Baldwin (1867-1947) British Conservative politician, Richard M. Langworth,
editor, Churchill By Himself. The Definitive Collection of Quotations, S. 322, PublicAffairs, 2008, reprint paperback edition
24. May 2011
- Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-born US American theoretical physicist, developer of the theory of general relativity, Nobel laureate in physics, 1921, contribution to a publication commemorating the eightieth birthday of German rabbi and theologian Leo Baeck, cited in: Alice Calaprice, editor, The New Quotable Einstein, Princeton University Press, paperback, 22. February 2005
- Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehoods school. And the one man that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool. Plato (427-347 BC) Ancient Greek pre-Christian philosopher,
founder of the occidental philosophy, cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote
- All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, cited in: Melissa Giovagnoli, Angels in the workplace. Stories and inspirations for creating a new world of work, 1999
- There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil. Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) English mathematician, philosopher, pioneering integralist, metaphysical educator, author, Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead, "Prologue", 1954, Praeger Publishers, reprint edition 1. February 1977, David R. Godine Publisher, 2001
- The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) Indian Bengali philosopher, musician, painter, playwright, poet, novelist, Nobel laureate in lite-
rature, 1913, The Fourfold Way of India, 1924
- The nearest each of us can come to God is by loving the truth. […]
- In speaking of truth we are not talking about the position to take that seems to put you in the most favorable light.
Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) US American engineer, systems theorist, architect, constructor, designer, inventor, futurist, philosopher, author, Critical Path, S. 58 and S. 59, St. Martin's Press, 1981
- Most people would actually prefer "satisfying untruth" to "unsatisfying truth."
Father Richard Rohr O.F.M. (*1943) US American Franciscan friar, deleted article Discovering the Right Questions Versus Having Answers, presented by the former publication malespirituality.org, September 2006
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
- Two sorts of truth: profound truths recognized by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth, in contrast to trivialities where opposites are obviously absurd. Niels Bohr (1885-1962) Danish quantum physicist, Nobel Prize laureate in physics, 1922, cited in: Hans Bohr, son of Niels Bohr, Stefan Rozental, Niels Bohr. His Life and Work as Seen by his Friends and Colleagues, Kapitel "Mein Vater", S. 328, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1967
- It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth. Niels Bohr (1885-1962) Danish quantum physicist, Nobel Prize laureate in physics, 1922, cited in: Max Delbrück, Mind from Matter. An Essay on Evolutionary Epistemology, S. 167, 1986
- Truth is such a rare thing, it is delighted to tell it. Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) US American poet, cited in: Sharon Leiter, Critical Companion to Emily Dickinson. A Literary Reference to Her Life and Work, S. 18, Facts on File, 2007
- Truth, like love and sleep, resents approaches that are too intense. W. H. Auden (1907-1973) Anglo-American poet, fa-
mous writer of the 20th century, Collected Poems, "New Year Letter", S. 166, 1940; cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote
- Joseph exclaimed, "Oh, if only it were possible to find understanding. If only there were a dogma to believe in. Every-
thing is contradictory, everything tangential; there are no certainties anywhere. Everything can be interpreted one
way and then again interpreted in the opposite sense. The whole of world history can be explained as development
and progress and can also be seen as nothing but decadence and meaninglessness. Isn’t there any truth? Is there
no real and valid doctrine?"
The master […] said: "There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone pro-
vides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for the perfection of yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught. Be prepared for conflicts." Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) German-born Swiss novelist, poet, The Glass Bead Game, novel, S. 83, 1931-1943
- Sometimes it’s a foolish thing to offer the truth, sometimes more foolish to withhold it. At certain moments, telling the truth is necessary; at critical times the inner confusion and pain must be spoken out for things to become clear. Michael Meade Mosaicvoices.org US American storyteller, mythologist, ritualist, spokesman in the men's movement, author,
Fate and Destiny. The Two Agreements of the Soul, Greenfire Press, 30. September 2010
- The truth will ultimately dissolve the hurt, but this is a by-product. In fact, it is only in the presence of compassion,
will people allow themselves to see the truth. Where there is no compassion there is no trust.
A.H. Almaas, Ph.D. (*1944) Kuwaitian physicist, spiritual teacher, founder of the therapeutic Diamond Approach, author,
Elements of the Real in Man (Diamond Heart, Book 1), S. 92, Diamond Books, 1st edition 5. September 2000
- During times of [universal] deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. Falsely attributed to George Orwell [Eric Arthur Blair] (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer, earliest evidence of above quote cited in: Venturino Giorgio, Partners in Ecocide. Australia's Complicity in the Uranium Cartel, Australia, 1982
- Force never disproves truth.
Erich Fromm (1900-1980) German US American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, author, Man for Himself. An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics, S. 246, Routledge, 1947, Holt Paperbacks, 15. November 1990
- If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish politician, pacifist, satirist, dramatist, Nobel laureate in literature, 1925, cited in: article
The Private Life of Billy Wilder, Joseph McBride and Michael Wilmington presented by the publication "Film Quarterly", 1970
- New opinions often appear
- first as jokes and fancies,
- then as blasphemies and treason,
- then as questions open to discussion,
- and finally as established truths.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish politician, pacifist, satirist, dramatist, Nobel laureate in literature, 1925, cited in: Mr. Fish, Nobody Left. S. 157, First Fantagraphics Books, June 2020
- The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persis-
tent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a
prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinions without the discomfort of thought.
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) assassinated 35th US American president (1917-1963), speech at Yale University, 11. June 1962
- Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion – and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stron-
ger) assume its opinion [...] while Truth again reverts to a new minority. Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) Danish philoso-
pher, theologian, writer, Alexander Dru, translator, Journals of Kierkegaard, written 1850, Harper Torchbooks, paperback edition 1959
- A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
William Blake (1757-1827) English painter, engraver, illustrator, poet, Auguries of Innocence, poem, ~1803
- There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
Maya Angelou (1928-2014) US American educator, historian, actress, playwright, civil-rights activist, producer, director, poet, bestselling author, cited in: blog entry by David Anderson, Facts can Obscure the Truth, 3. March 2013
- A prophet is not a man who tells the future; he is a man who tells the truth.
Harold S. Kushner (1935-2023) US American progressive rabbi of Conservative Judaism, author, cited in: article Fewer Experts, More Prophets, presented by the publication Signs of the Times, Loren Seibold, November 2016
- The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
Herbert Agar (1897-1980) US American journalist, editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for History, 1934, cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote
- A lie has no power whatsoever by its mere utterance; its power emerges when someone else agrees to believe the lie.
Video presentation by Pamela Meyer, US American Harvard MBA, certified fraud examiner, founder and CEO of the private label social networking company "Simpatico Networks", author, How to spot a liar, presented by TED Talks Global 2011, minute 1:52, 18:51 minutes duration, filmed July 2011, posted October 2011
- Truth is a sword that cuts in all directions. It is a mind that is unprejudiced by religion, philosophy, and cultural conditioning. It is going naked in the stars. Christopher Calder, US American former Osho Sannyasin, cult critic, The Meditation Handbook, 17. July 2015
- To truth only a brief celebration of victory is allowed between the two long periods during which it is condemned as paradoxical, or disparaged as trivial. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) German philosopher, faculty member, author, E. F. J. Payne, translator, The World as Will and Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer, volume 1 of 2, "Preface",
S. xvii, Dover Publications, New York, 2012
- Whenever a new and startling fact is brought to light in science,
- people first say, ‘it is not true,’
- then that ‘it is contrary to religion,’
- and lastly, ‘that everybody knew it before.'
Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) Swiss-American biologist, geologist, prodigious scholar of Earth's natural history, cited in: Sir Charles Lyell, distinguished geologist, The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man. With Remarks on Theories of the Origin of Species by Variation by Sir Charles Lyell, chapter 6,
S. 105, George W. Childs, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1863
- Is it surprising that positive knowledge of this sort should meet with opposition among honest, earnest cultivators of medicine? Not at all. For it is ever so with any great truth.
- It must first be opposed,
- then ridiculed,
- after a while accepted,
- and then comes the time to prove that it is not new, and that the credit of it belongs to some one else.
Scientific paper by J. Marion Sims, M.D., "On the Microscope, as an Aid in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Sterility", read at a mee-
ting of the Medical Society of the County of New York, 7. December 1868, later published by E.S. Gaillard, Louisville, Kentucky in
"The Richmond and Louisville Medical Journal", volume 7, number 3, starting page 288, S. 290, March 1869
- Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake.
Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.
Werner Herzog (*1942) German film director, producer, opera director, actor, screenwriter, cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote
- Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
Knowledge is not intelligence.
In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected.
Change alone is unchanging.
The same road goes both up and down.
The beginning of the circle is also its end.
Not I, but the world says: all is one.
And yet everything comes in season.
Heraclitus of Ephesus (535/520-475/460 BC) pre-Socratic Ancient Greek philosopher, cited in: Number Six [Jelle U. Hielkema], The Natural Theory of DEALISM: 'Quest for a Better Understanding Between Humanity and Nature for 'A Better World', S. 5, Dorrance Publishing Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2010
"Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities."
- Certainly, any one who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices. If you do not use the intelligence with which God endowed your mind to resist believing impossibilities, you will not be able to use the sense of injustice which God planted in your heart to resist a command to do evil. Once a single faculty of your soul has been tyrannized, all the other faculties will submit to the same fate. This has been the cause of all the religious crimes that have flooded the earth. Voltaire [François-Marie Arouet] (1694-1778) French philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment, social critic, proponent of the French Revolution, advocate of civil liberties, freedom of religion, free trade, deist, writer, Questions sur les miracles, 1765, cited in: Norman
L. Torrey (1894-1980 ) US American translator, author, Les Philosophes. The Philosophers of the Enlightenment and Modern Demo-
cracy, S. 277-278, Capricorn Books, 5th edition 1960
- Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live. There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find
out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings. Dorothy Thompson (1893-1961) US American anthologist, radio broadcaster, journalist, freelance writer, cited in: Ken Standfield, Intangible Risk Management Standards. Introduc-
tion, S. 167, The International Intangible Management Standards Institute, March 2007
- There are not truths, there are just stories. Saying of the Zuni, American Native tribe
- Truth lives a wretched life, but always survives a lie. Anonymous
- It's not a matter of what is true but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
⚡ Henry Kissinger (1923-2023) German-born US American political scientist, diplomat, US secretary of state (1969-1977), Nobel Peace Prize recipient, 1973, cited in: Michael A. Kirchubel, Vile Acts of Evil. Banking in America, Volume 1, S. 221, 2009
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Literary quotes
- Who dares to call the child by its right name?
The few who have some part of it descried,
Yet fools enough to guard not their full hearts,
Revealing to riffraff both their insight and their feeling,
Men have of old burned at the stake and crucified.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832) German polymath, poet, playwright, dramatist, novelist, drama Faust. A Tragedy V. (text) [1808], Thomas Boosey and Sons, London, 1821, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976
- My wish for you […] is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) Soviet and Russian historian, imprisoned in the Soviet gulag, dramatist, novelist, Nobel
laureate in literature, 1970, novel In the First Circle, 1968, Harper Perennial, uncensored edition 2009
- The Master maintained that what the whole world held to be true is false;
so the pioneer is always in a minority of one.
He said: "You think of Truth as if it were a formula you can pick up from a book.
If you wish to follow Truth you must learn to walk alone."
Anthony de Mello SJ (1931-1987) Indian Catholic Jesuit priest, psychotherapist, spiritual leader, author, Awareness. Conversations
with the Masters, ''Parables of the Master", Doubleday, New York, Image, reprint paperback edition 1. June 1990, May 1992
Movie lines
Poem
- This above all – to thine own self be true;
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English actor, playwright, dramatist, lyricist, character Polonius in the tragedy Hamlet, act 1, scene iii, ~1602
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Quotes on deception and lying
Recommendations
- Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it. Reasoning of Adolf Hitler [Führer and Reichskanzler] (1889-1945) Austrian-German fascist leader of the Nazi Party during the Third Reich (1933-1945)
Conclusion
- A truth's initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn't the world being round that agitated people, but that the world wasn't flat. When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic. Attributed to Donald James Wheal [Thomas Dresden] (1931-2008) British scriptwriter, television writer, non-fiction writer, novelist, presented by the blog-
spot David A. Grant
- Deceit is the Cinderella of human nature; essential to our humanity but disowned by its perpetrators at every turn. It
is normal, natural, and pervasive. It is not, as popular opinion would have it, reducible to mental illness or moral fai-
lure. Human society is a network of lies and deceptions that would collapse under the weight of too much ho-
nesty. David Livingstone Smith, Ph.D. (*1953) US American associate professor of philosophy and religious studies, University of New England, psychoanalytic psychotherapist, founder of the New England Institute for Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Psy-
chology, author, Why We Lie. The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious Mind, S. 2, St. Martin's Press, 1st edition
1. July 2004
- The power to deceive is our main weapon in the struggle for social survival. […] Self-deception has been a wonderful gift, but it is now destroying us. Our taste for it resembles our craving for sugar and animal fat. […] The
most dangerous forms of self-deception are the collective ones. Patriotism, moral crusades, and religious fervor
across nations are like plagues, slicing the world into good and evil, defender and aggressor, right and wrong.
David Livingstone Smith, Ph.D. (*1953) US American associate professor of philosophy and religious studies, University of New England, psychoanalytic psychotherapist, founder of the New England Institute for Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Psycho-
logy, author, Why We Lie. The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious Mind, St. Martin's Press, 1st edition 1. July
2004
- The ever-present possibility of deceit is a crucial dimension of every human relationship, even the most central:
our relationship with our very selves.
David Livingstone Smith, Ph.D. (*1953) US American associate professor of philosophy and religious studies, University of New England, psychoanalytic psychotherapist, founder of the New England Institute for Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Psycho-
logy, author, Why We Lie. The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious Mind, quote on the inside jacket cover, St.
Martin's Press, 1st edition 1. July 2004
- Self-deception (repression) cannot logically exist.
It is extremely pervasive.
It is a hallmark of the healthy mind.
It is at the core of the process that generates mental illness.
Deleted article Self-Deception. A Comprehensive Analysis, Jordan Peterson, Ph.D. (*1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, profes-
sor of psychology, University of Toronto, political scientist, author, published on homepage 2014, further explained in deleted paper
Self-Deception Explained, ~2015
- Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
Article by Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Anglo-Irish cleric, dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, political pamphleteer, satirist, poet, essayist, presented by The Examiner, Number 15, page 2, column 1, printed for John Morphew, near Stationers-Hall, London, 2. November 1710
- I think that rnost often lies fail because the liar has not adequately prepared the false line he or she intends to maintain. One obvious example is when the liar forgets what he has said on one occasion and thoroughly contradicts himself on another occasion. Paul Ekman, Ph.D. paulekman.com (*1934) US American professor of psychology, anthropologist, pioneer
in the study of emotions, UCSF, author, Lying And Nonverbal Behavior. Theoretical Issues And New Findings, PDF, presented by
the Journal Of Nonverbal Behavior, volume 12, issue 3, S. 164 (163-175), Human Sciences Press, fall 1988
- Usually lies about emotions involve more than just fabricating an emotion which is not felt. They also require concea-
ling an emotion which is actually being experienced. Concealment often goes hand in hand with fabrication. The liar feigns emotion to mask signs of the emotion to be concealed.
Paul Ekman, Ph.D. paulekman.com (*1934) US American professor of psychology, anthropologist, pioneer in the study of emotions, UCSF, author, Lying And Nonverbal Behavior. Theoretical Issues And New Findings, PDF, presented by the Journal Of Nonverbal Behavior, volume 12, issue 3, S. 165 (163-175), Human Sciences Press, fall 1988
- Lies which are not about emotions may be betrayed by emotions the liar feels about the process of lying. Chief among these feelings about lying are the fear of being caught, guilt about lying, and what l have called duping delight, the pleasure and excitement of putting one over. Not all lies will call forth these emotions.
Paul Ekman, Ph.D. paulekman.com (*1934) US American professor of psychology, anthropologist, pioneer in the study of emotions, UCSF, author, Lying And Nonverbal Behavior. Theoretical Issues And New Findings, PDF, presented by the Journal Of Nonverbal Behavior, volume 12, issue 3, S. 165 (163-175), Human Sciences Press, fall 1988
- There is research showing that the people who are most popular and the most socially skilled are the best at lying. And that is because most of the time we don't want to hear the truth. If you think about someone who is always telling you the truth, 100% of the time. That person is blunt, is seen as not someone who is not someone who we want to have in
our lives. So in fact, we very often welcome these lies. Audio interview with Robert Feldman, Ph.D., US American psycho-
logy professor, University of Massachusetts, leading researcher on lying and deception, author, The Liar in Your Life, presented by the WNYC The Brian Lehrer Show, host Brian Lehrer (*1952), minute 12:06, 20:27 minutes duration, YouTube film, 5:13 minutes duration, posted by wnycradio 3. August 2009
- Life is suffering. And suffering can make you resentful, murderous and then genocidal, if you take it far enough.
[Walls of luxury and delusion will fall apart eventually.] The truth is the antidote to suffering. And the reason for
that is because the truth puts reality behind you so that you can face the reality that is coming straight at you without becoming weak and resentful and wishing for the destruction of being, because that's the final hell. [...] The final hell
is your soul wishing for the destruction of everything, because it's too painful, and you are too bitter, and that happens to people all the time. Audio interview with Jordan Peterson, Ph.D. (*1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, professor of psycho-
logy, University of Toronto, political scientist, author, #877 – Jordan Peterson, presented by The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, host Joe Rogan (*1961) US American actor, comedian, podcaster, sports color commentator, Spotify audio, minute 2:37:33,
2:50:05 minutes duration, 26. November 2016
- Life is hard, it's no wonder people get corrupted by it. It's not an easy thing to live in a truthful manner, but the alter-
native is hell. […] I learned a lot about the importance of spoken truth as the counterveiling force against tyranny and authoritarianism. It isn't an alternative political structure that’s counterveiling force, it's spoken truth that's the counter-
veiling force. […] The ability to speak your truth is the bullwark against hell. And losing your job that's nothing compa-
red to where things can go, when they go badly. […] Most people don't understand the risks of [pathological] silence.
Audio interview with Jordan Peterson, Ph.D. (*1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, professor of psychology, University of Toronto, political scientist, author, #877 – Jordan Peterson, presented by The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, host Joe Rogan (*1961) US American actor, comedian, podcaster, sports color commentator, Spotify audio, minute 2:37:33, 2:50:05 minutes duration, 26. No-
vember 2016
- A white lie is not morally bad. It's ethically justifiable to provide white lies. In fact, if you did not provide white lies so-
ciety would be a very, very difficult place to exist in. […] In order to survive in society you have to provide white lies,
because white lies make the other person feel comfortable.
Video interview with John J. Furedy (1940-2016) Hungarian-born Australian and Canadian psychophysiologist, distinguished re-
search professor of psychology, University of Toronto, Psychology of Lying, presented by the Canadian TV station TVO, Ontario, program "Think About", YouTube film, minute 2:05, 8:22 minutes duration, posted 7. December 2009
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- Today we have with us a group of students among America's best, to you we say: We've only completed a beginning, we leave you [...] much that is undone. There are great ideas undiscovered. Breakthroughs available to those who can remove one of truth's protective layers.
Neil Armstrong (1930-2012) US American aviator, astronaut, professor of aerospace engineering, Cryptic speech hinting to a cover up, 25th anniversary of the Moon Landing, White House, 1994, YouTube film,
0:50 minutes duration, posted 22. August 2007
- Teachers, religious leaders – even friends, or so called friends – take over where parents leave off. They demand that we feel only the feelings they want and expect from us. They demand all the time that we perform feelings for them. We're like actors – turned loose in this world to wander in search of a phantom […] endlessly searching for a half-forgotten shadow of our lost reality. When others demand that we become the people they want us to be, they force us to destroy the person we really are. It's a subtle kind of murder […] the most loving parents and relatives commit this murder with smiles on their faces.
Jim Morrison (1943-1971) US American lead singer and lyricist of the rock band The Doors, poet, Jim Morrison thoughts on freedom – Lizzie James interview, originally recorded in 1969, originally published as article Jim Morrison: Ten Years Gone by CREEM Magazine special edition, Ms. Lizzie James, 1981, republished by the Blogroll Patrick Wanis Ph.D., 16. April 2014
- Great liars are also great magicians. Adolf Hitler [Führer and Reichskanzler] (1889-1945) Austrian-German fascist leader
of the Nazi Party during the Third Reich (1933-1945), cited in: Mike Hockney, The Noosphere, S. 275, Hyperreality Books, 2013
- The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
Adolf Hitler [Führer and Reichskanzler] (1889-1945) Austrian-German fascist leader of the Nazi Party during the Third Reich (1933-1945), autobiography Mein Kampf, Franz Eher Nachfolger, 18. July 1925, Pimlico, London, 1939, 1998
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Quotes by David R. Hawkins
- Every civilization is characterized by native principles. If the principles of a civilization are noble, it succeeds; if they are selfish, it falls. As a term, "principles" may sound abstract, but the consequences of principles are quite concrete. If we examine principles we will see that they reside in an invisible realm within consciousness itself. Although we can point out examples of honesty in the world, honesty itself as an organizing principle central to civilization is nowhere independently existent in the external world. True power, then, emanates from consciousness itself; what we see
is a visible manifestation of the invisible.
Dr. David R. Hawkins, Power vs. Force. The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior, Hay House, February 2002
Positive (strong) response (above 200) – Negative (weak) response (below 200)
- Candid – Calculating
- Honest – Legal
- It is very immature to expect others to live up to one’s own standards or ideals. Let us not overlook that
- the majority of people have no reason other than to ‘take what they can get’. Seventy-eight percent of the
people on the planet calibrate below the level of Integrity at 200.
- They are not committed to spiritual truth, which to them is fiction or idealistic nonsense.
- Fairness, consideration, honesty, and ethics do not prevail at consciousness levels below 200.
When they do, it is the exception rather than the rule.
- The general human experience throughout time has been that true, inner self-honesty at great depth is possible only with God's help, for understandably, the ego alone is quite unlikely to cooperate with its own demise and extinction
as the moving, dominant force in one's life. Dr. David R. Hawkins, Transcending Levels of Consciousness, S. 244, 2006
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Englische Texte – English section on Authenticity
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Links zum Thema Echtheit / Authenticity
Literatur
Literature (engl.)
- David Livingstone Smith, Ph.D. (*1953) US American associate professor of philosophy and religious studies, University of New England, psychoanalytic psychotherapist, founder of the New England Institute for Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Psycho-
logy, author, Why We Lie. The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious Mind, St. Martin's Press, 1st edition 1. July 2004
- Ralph Keyes, US American lecturer, author, The Post-Truth Era. Dishonesty and Deception in Contemporary Life, St. Martin's Press, 1st edition 7. October 2004
- Thomas d'Ansembourg (*1957) French psychotherapist, Being Genuine. Stop Being Nice, Start Being Real, Puddledancer Press, 1st edition 28. May 2007
- Mike Robbins, US American speaker, author, Be Yourself, Everyone Else Is Already Taken: Transform Your Life with the Power of Authenticity. The Power of Authenticity to Transform Your Life and Relationships, John Wiley and Sons, 1st edition 6. April
2009
- Kelly Bryson, MA, MFT, US American licensed therapist, trainer for the International Center for Nonviolent Communication, con-
sultant, lecturer, author, Don't Be Nice, Be Real. Balancing Passion for Self with Compassion for Others, Elite Books, 2nd edition
1. January 2010
- Gary Zukav seatofthesoul.com (*1942) US American spiritual teacher, author, Spiritual Partnership. The Journey to Authentic Power, HarperOne, New York, 1st edition 27. April 2010
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Externe Weblinks
THEMEN: Wie wirklich ist die Wirklichkeit?
Authentizität durch Berührung, Echtheit – man sieht nur, was man weiß, Narrative Identität, Mimesis, C.G. Jungs offene Symbole.
Wie für den Konstruktivismus Bilder im Kopf entstehen, Wodurch werden Bilder authentisch?
External web links (engl.)
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Audio- und Videolinks
Audio and video links (engl.)
- Video inaugural presentation by Jim Carrey (*1962) Canadian-American actor, comedian, producer, The Real Jim Carrey, sponsored by Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment, GATE Event 2009, filmed and produced by Eckhart Tolle TV, availed also by Mindful Living Foundation, YouTube film, 4:34 minutes duration, posted 23. January 2010
After several bouts of depression Carrey shares his encounter with awakening induced by a DMT drug experience.
- Video interview with Gary Zukav seatofthesoul.com (*1942) US American spiritual teacher, author, presented by the Author magazine, YouTube film, posted 11. June 2010
- Video presentation by Pamela Meyer, US American Harvard MBA, certified fraud examiner, founder and CEO of the private label social networking company "Simpatico Networks", author, How to spot a liar | Pamela Meyer, presented by TED Talks, YouTube film, 18:50 minutes duration, filmed July 2011, posted 13. October 2011
- Video presentation by Dr. Maria Sirois, US American inspirational speaker, consultant, and licensed clinical psychologist, Living an authentic life: Dr. Maria Sirois at TEDxBerkshires, presented by TEDxBerkshires 2012, Lenox, Massachusetts, 15. May
2012, YouTube film, 14:36 minutes duration, posted 14. January 2013
- Video presentation and Q&A with Gabor Maté, M.D. drgabormate.com (*1944) Hungarian-Canadian physician, addiction expert, speaker, author, Authenticity, presented by the Paloma Foundation, workshop, 15. November 2012, YouTube film, 35:51 minutes duration, posted 9. April 2017
- Video Fernsehinterview mit Arno Gruen (1923-2015) deutsch-schweizerischer Psychologe, Psychoanalytiker, Zivilisationskritiker, Schriftsteller, Arno Gruen – Leben als Original, präsentiert von dem ersten Fernsehprogramm des Schweizer Radio und Fern-
sehens (SRF) SRF 1, wöchentliche Diskussionsrunde Sternstunde Philosophie, Gastgeber Juri Steiner, Sendetermin 7. Juni 2015, YouTube Film, 56:46 Minuten Dauer, eingestellt 8. Juni 2015
Gruen geht es darum, dass der Mensch zu sich und zu seinen wahren Gefühlen findet.
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