the truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind
— Emily Dickinson
Instructions hit the mind, but truth penetrates the being.
The natural habitat of truth is found in interpersonal communication. Truth lives in dialogue, in discussion, in conversation ...
– Josef Pieper
One of the highest values is truthfulness, with other people that are committed and want to do that and not only people who are not lying to each other, but they are endeavoring to not withhold information, which is tremendous intimacy, and tremendous vulnerability.
– Daniel Schmachtenberger
Herzog is a wanderer, a witness, a wiley coyote, a wizard, a see-er, a displacement, a trickster, a blue-collar worker in the “truth industry.” “Truth,” he insists, “is not the same as reality.” Truth is a clip of reality, a slice, a morsel, an image. Reality is the portal, truth is the scene we enter into, more or less fully, more or less willfully.
truth is always fresh
– NA
The crucial point I am making is that there is no Truth (capital T) for creatures who do not, and cannot, inhabit the complete context of the kosmos— that is the context that only God can inhabit. Yet in all contexts, we can experience the nature of truth, if we can fully immerse ourselves in that particular context, and embrace it there, without a sense of what it must be lacking. In other words, one must be fully absorbed into the particular context, to fully experience the nature of the true. This is the kind of truth that Rilke said was both beautiful and terrifying: For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us.
– https://bonnittaroy.substack.com/p/before-socrates-the-ecstasy-of-truth
Facts are accumulated by effort, but truth reveals itself effortlessly
– David R. Hawkins, Power vs Force
We often conflate truth with familiarity. Just because it resonates it must not be truth.
Theories
- correspondence theory - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correspondence_theory_of_truth
- coherence theory - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherence_theory_of_truth
- deflationary theory - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflationary_theory_of_truth
- pluralist theory - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluralist_theories_of_truth
- epistemic theory - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemic_theories_of_truth
- pragmatic theory - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatic_theory_of_truth
Truth teller
I think what I mean is people that seek the truth rather search for truth
Paltering
Notes
- Attachment is the cause of suffering, attachment to what?, attachment to false ideas, concepts, narratives that are disfunctional
- Jordan Peterson on speaking the truth
- The Path to Peace Is Truth
- « Truth is what u can independently verify yourself. Reality is what others can collaboratively verify » emotions are true, facts are real
- truth is wholeness
- distinction between truth and truthfulness
- Combinations
- Someone is being truthful, and is speaking what is true.
- Someone is being truthful, but not speaking what is true.
- Someone is not being truthful, and is not speaking what is true.
- Someone is not being truthful, but is speaking what is true.
- the latter is what is pointed to by paltering/bullshit
- Combinations
- the spirit of truth
- "the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you." – John 14:17, the New King James
- https://thestoa.substack.com/p/truth-power
- The Münchhausen trilemma is a thought-experiment used to demonstrate the impossibility of proving any truth.
- running on prescriptions is ignoring the truth. there is a truth to things and finding that out is what is meant by being serious-sincere.
- kinesiological response about recognizing truth through flow of energy in the body (meredian system). it goes towards that supports its survival or withdraws. its inpersonal.
- search vs seeking truth from https://youtu.be/FfMjyNipCLI?t=959
- difference of the qualities
- puzzle vs mystery (searching)
- within the puzzle there is the true
- with the mystery there is an embodiment and livingness to truth (seeking)
- a jordan-peterson rather a person.sam-harris truth
- puzzle vs mystery (searching)
- difference of the qualities
- fallibilism
- truth is that which has predictive power