Naval, Goethe, Dostoevsky, and the Supreme Good
Three Point Thursday | 3 Timeless Maxims
To curious minds,
Happy Three Point Thursday.
Here’s 3 quotes I’m thinking about:
“I went looking for truth and all I found was love.
I went looking for love and all I found was truth.”
“Wisdom is to be found only in truth.”
“Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
―Fyodor Dostoevsky
If you want to experience hell, lie.
Don’t even look for truth—seek only comforting lies.
Deny your problems. Say you’re going to do things, but don’t do them. Make stuff up about yourself to try and impress people, even though it makes you feel worse inside because you know it’s false.
Don’t show your authentic self. Agree with things you don’t actually agree with for social approval.
This is the way.
Hell, guaranteed.
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JAMITO
Thanks Rick. Albert Camus said “fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.” So if you’re making up a story of fictional characters and events to make a point or teach a lesson, then yes. That is the magic of the storyteller. But of course, to tell a story that claims something actually happened that did not, a story pretending to be real that is false, then definitely no. That is always bad. Unless it’s clearly part of a stand up comedy act.