Essential Truth Quotes

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.

Here is my secret. It is very simple: one sees well only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes.

Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

All names and forms are the garbs and covers under which the one life is hidden.

Truth is a very different thing from fact; it is the loving contact of the soul with spiritual fact, vital and potent. It does not work in the soul independently of all faculty or qualification there for setting it forth or defending it. Truth in the inward parts is a power, not an opinion.

Truth is a necessary phantom.

There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.

If we knew the truth, we'd see it; all else is system and outskirts.

Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.

[James] Baldwin is needed even more today because he helps you focus to the essential, to what is important.

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

La vraie e loquence se moque de l'e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence, true morality has no time for morality.

As soon as one knows one is going to die, childhood is over.... So one can be grown up at seven. Then, I believe most human beings forget what they have understood, recover another sort of childhood that can last all their lives. It is not a true childhood but a kind of forgetting. Desires and anxieties are there, preventing you from having access to the essential truth.

Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.

The reality of what we really are is often times found in the small snips, way down at the bottom of things.

However far back I go into my childhood, nothing seems to me more characteristic of, or more familiar in, my interior economy than the appetite or irresistible demand for some 'Unique all-sufficing and necessary reality.'

What is essential does not die but clarifies.

The Gospel is like water; no man invented it, yet no man can live without it.

But the truth is the highest consideration.

It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.

Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity.