Underlying truth Quotes

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

It is always about discovering what, hidden, does not lie on the paper.

Sometimes you have to shove all the surface stuff to the side in order to see what's underneath.

Everything we see… is just the visible part of reality.

I would say emotionally we've all turned into these sort of toxic, shallow, angry, polarized demons screaming at each other from across echo chambers. My whole thing is that I'm trying to get underneath the anger into the truth that's underneath it.

It is only after you have come to know the surface of things ... that you can venture to seek what is underneath. But the surface of things is inexhaustible.

If we talk about the glass being half empty or half full, I want to know what does the glass look like from underneath the table?

I am not as simple as I look.

This was the void. Not blackness, not nothingness. This was what lay beneath the thinly painted scrim of reality.

The love is what's left at the end because it's the bedrock, fundamental reality that gets hidden all the time, but never really goes away.

Facts are the mere dross of history. It is from the abstract truth which interpenetrates them, and lies latent among them, like gold in the ore, that the mass derives its whole value; and the precious particles are generally combined with the baser in such a manner that the separation is a task of the utmost difficulty.

Sometimes people are layered like that. There's something totally different underneath than what's on the surface. But sometimes, there's a third, even deeper level, and that one is the same as the top surface one. Like with pie.

that expression you get in your eyes when you are very tired and everything is like a dream and you are starting to know what things are like underneath what people say they are.

The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact

Perhaps there's another, much larger story behind the printed one, a story that changes just as our own world does. And the letters on the page tell us only as much as we'd see peering through a keyhole. Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: It always stays the same, but underneath there's a whole world that goes on - developing and changing like our own world.

Radical simply means grasping things at the root.

When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.

Art can be a medium for people to discover universal spirit, with imagery not isolated to one particular wisdom path, but pointing to the underlying truth that they all transmit.

There is a real, living unity in our time, as in any other, but it lies submerged under a superficial hubbub of sensation.

What I love most about icons is finding out what's behind them, exploring the price of their power.

The strong are strengthened by reverses; the trouble is that the true meaning of events scores next to nothing in the match we play with men. Appearances decide our gains or losses and the points are trumpery. And a mere semblance of defeat may hopelessly checkmate us.

That's the novelist's job: to peel back the layers and look underneath.

There is more going on beneath the surface than we think, and more going on in little, finite moments of time than we would guess.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Spirituality is not primarily about values and ethics, not about exhortations to do right or live well. The spiritual traditions are primarily about reality...an effort to penetrate the illusions of the external world and to name its underlying truth.