Charles Mackay Quotes

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

I go with what I know and what I see, and I believe in reality.

But the truth doesn't need to be known, or believed, to be true.

Is not the truth the truth?

The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.

No authority is higher than reality.

Theorists can be wrong; only nature is always right.

There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.

Don't confuse facts with reality.

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.

True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.

Facts are better than dreams.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

What is the truth? Is it what you experience? Is it what I experience? Or is there some objective truth in between?

Music is science. Everything is science. Because science is truth.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. After all, if it's there it doesn't require your belief- and if it's not there why should you believe in it?

Truth, I have learned, differs for everybody. Just as no two people ever see a rainbow in exactly the same place - and yet both most certainly see it, while the person seemingly standing right underneath it does not see it at all - so truth is a question of where one stands, and the direction one is looking in at the time.

He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.

It’s critical that we know what we believe, no matter what we feel...that we know what is true, no matter what we see.

Experience alone can decide on truth.

The real is near, you do not have to seek it; and a man who seeks truth will never find it. Truth is in what is - and that is the beauty of it. But the moment you conceive it, the moment you seek it, you begin to struggle; and a man who struggles cannot understand. That is why we have to be still, observant, passively aware.

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

Truth is superior to man s wisdom.