#philosophy #knowledge #wisdom # [[Epistemic status]] #shower-thought # Related - [[Truth is a Pathless Land]] - [[Wittgenstein]] - [[Wisdom]] - [[Why]] - [[Do not rely on authority]] # Truth [[There are two answers to this question, as to all questions: the poet's and the scholar's. Which one do you want first?]] ## Poet >When a man has a genuine desire to know The Truth, he deems himself available to knowing it. And thus the [[Our universe|Universe]] infuses it into his bloodstream. >~ [[Kapil Gupta - A Master's Secret Whispers For those who abhor the noise and seek The Truth about life and living|Kapil Gupta]]  >It is far easier to be slothful or hard working than it is to be a Seeker. >~ [[Kapil Gupta - Direct Truth - Uncompromising - Non-Prescriptive Truths to the Enduring Questions of Life|Kapil Gupta]]  >Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized >~ [[Osho]] ## Scholar Truth does not exist, it is an illusion created by humans which is useful for survival. >[[Hobbes]], as might be expected, is an out-and-out nominalist. There is, he says, nothing universal but names, and without words we could not conceive any general ideas. Without language, there would be no truth or falsehood, for “true” and “false” are attributes of speech. >~ [[Bertrand Russell]] It is such an useless word, as when people are arguing about truth, say, "communism is the best party for humanity" vs "capitalism is the best party for humanity", it is subjective, it depends on everyone goals. >There are many kinds of eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes—therefore there must be many kinds of "truths," and consequently there can be no truth. ~ [[Nietzsche]] >Truth is the opinion which is fated to be ultimately agreed to by all who investigate ~ [[Peirce]]