CHESMAYNE
Truth
01 Thomas Jefferson…….
“We hold these truths to be
self-evident, that all wo/men are created equal, that they are endowed by their
creator with certain inalienable rights.
That among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are
instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the
governed. That, whenever any form of
government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to
alter and abolish it” (American Declaration of
He
became 3rd President of the USA and hero of its 35th, J.F.K and its 42nd, William
Jefferson Clinton who resided at the most famous of American addresses - 1600
Pennsylvania Avenue – [now the official residence of President George Bush who
is said/believed, by many - to have won the recent election]. The White House now has a WEB site on the
Internet.
“The
truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder,
for the truth”.
“The
truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not
to hear”.
“Truth
is the cry of all, but the game of the few” (BS George Berkeley).
“When
you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must
be the truth”.
“A new
truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light,
but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up
that is familiar with it”.
02 Vivekananda (Indian
philosopher): “One is the Truth, widely various in speech”.
03 Epistemological: the branch
of philosophy which investigates the origin, nature, methods and limits of
human knowledge.
04 Ontological: the science of
being. The branch of metaphysics that
investigates the nature of being and of the first principles, or categories,
involved.
05 Metaphysical: concerned with
abstract thought or subjects, as existence, causality, truth, first truths and
ultimate grounds, as being, time, substance.
“I design plain truth for plain people”.
06 Existential: pertaining to
existence.
07 Bible: “I am
the way, the truth and the
life”. The most efficient and effective
“Way” to overcome problems or adversity is by non-contention or yielding, which
is not submission or capitulation, but exercising control by taking the “Way”
of least resistance [Lao Tzu].
08 John
09 “He who begins by loving
Christianity better than Truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church
better than Christianity, and end by loving himself better than all”, (Aids to
Reflection: Moral and Religious Aphorisms).
“One religion is as true as another”.
10 Hamlet: “This above all: to
thine own self be true”.
11 Tennyson…….
“Ring
out the old, ring in the new, ...Ring out the false, ring in the true”.
12 Frank Lloyd Wright: “The
truth is more important than the facts”.
13 Feather: represents truth
which must rise. Egypt: emblem of Maat,
goddess of truth. Amenti Osiris weighs
the soul against this feather. Wearing
feathers puts a person in touch with the magic powers and instinctual knowledge.
For this reason feathered robes are worn by priests and
shamans.
“Magna est veritas, et praevalet” (Great is truth, and it prevails).
14 H. Boerhaave:
“Simplicity is the key to truth”.
“All the great truths are disguised”.
15 “The love of truth; the pleasure the mind feels in overcoming difficulties; the
satisfaction of contributing to the general store of knowledge; the engrossing nature of a pursuit so
exalted as that of diving into the wonders of creation; all these are very powerful incentives to
exertion...”.
Part
of the Presidential address given by the third Earl (of Rosse) to the 1854
meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (giving some
insight into his motives for the construction of his telescopes and
also into the character of the man).