Here you will find some of the greatest quotes about Truth.
Knowing the Truth doesn’t have any benefits by itself. Biologically actions are more valuable than Truth (knowing). Because passing your genes does not require knowing it, but it surely requires… doing it.
The sad reality is that most people are wrong about most things.
Believing the actual Truth was not a significant evolutionary advantage.
Evolutionary any potential Truth was somewhat of an advantage – not being totally confused and acting with a plan, even a bad one, resulted in gathering experience and improving over a lifetime.
You would never want to live with a different Truth from your tribe.
Conformism is built into our biology.
The strongest evolutionary advantage was not to know the actual Truth. It was to have one Perceived Truth with those around you.
The objective Truth was almost nowhere to be found in the Stone Age.
Even in the time of Aristotle people were wrong about almost everything.
Evolution did not prepare us for the concept of scientific Truth at all.
People were happy with the gods and spirits, society worked, and all of the improvements that could happen with science were unthinkable because people had never seen anything better and could not imagine it differently. This is why human scientific progress was so incredibly slow at first.
We need to believe that Progress is possible in order to make it happen.
Believing the Earth is flat is biologically useful and fine for the people who believe this. It may not be objectively true, but who cares? Biology certainly doesn’t.
In a messy atomized world where people no longer live in tribes, desperate times require desperate measures. So we make new tribes based on whatever fiction we stumble upon first – it only matters that we are valued, have status and find a mate.
People in many conspiracy theory movements derive their status mostly because of the onslaught against them.
The gap we need to bridge can only be bridged with Love and understanding.
While it’s our social responsibility to help more people get closer to the objective Truth, this will not happen with arguments. Biology is prepared for arguments and has defensive mechanisms. It’s Love, compassion, and understanding that melts the ice.
The Flat Earther just desperately wanted to be special and find some real human connection.
Biology makes usefulness always dominate objectivity.
The uniting story of the tribe has to be emotional and beautiful in order to be sticky enough to work. There is no incentive for Truth in it.
Tobacco and gambling companies, Coca-Cola and McDonalds are all about Bullshit – they don’t outright lie that they are healthy – they just turn your attention away from the fact of how unhealthy they are by endless advertising playing on your emotional strings.
Bullshit is everywhere on every level.
The bigger a system is, the more Bullshit it produces.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it. Upton Sinclair.
People in large organizations resist Change and equate their salary with survival.
Public perception of Success is a huge generator of Bullshit.
The hope is in you.
You have the potential to rise above the Bullshit and dare to fight for the Truth.
Truth is an ideal – it will be there even if no one believes in it.
The Truth cannot fight for itself. We have to fight for it.
The nemesis of any Bullshit group is another group with even stronger Bullshit! This does not mean closer or further from the Truth, but rather more uniting, more sticky, and more beautiful.
For the people trapped in a strong Bullshit story, objective Truth on the matter is out of reach, making it irrelevant.
It’s not that you win that much by being in the team Truth. It’s more about how much we can lose ending up somewhere in the Bullshit coalition.
There is no middle path. You either love the ideal of Truth and fight for it or you leave yourself to the evolutionary forces, which will lead you into one of the many Bullshit camps.
False beliefs generate a ton of secondary false beliefs. Useful beliefs do not generate secondary useful beliefs.
Flows go everywhere they need to by nature. Unlike logical structures, they don’t need to be developed. They just are, and it’s enough.
The fact that something false was useful will make other false beliefs more attractive in the future. This one is a slippery slope.
They didn’t give you a story useful to you! They only pretended to. In reality, they gave you a story, politically useful to them, so they can get your vote and increase the power of their group. And make no mistake, they did this in full, cold-blooded conscience.
The worse the intentions around you, the more Truth you need inside to survive and thrive.
Most governments, political actors and corporations are typical Bullshit actors and have the main intention to build and keep control over you.
Bullshit is the main tool of control over the masses. So we have to constantly resist.
In a Vibe system, everything truly great creates endless positive ripples.
Most people somehow assume they are attracted biologically to the Truth while in fact, they are not.
Emotional trust you can feel for your grandma and hug her. Intellectual trust you can feel for your sysadmin to fix your operating system. Now imagine letting your grandma fix your OS and hugging your sysadmin! Now you see why the way we talk about trust is always wrong. We never differentiate. Those two types have literally nothing in common!
The two (totally different) types of trust are fundamental human expressions of life’s core forces (Love – Fear and Chaos – Structure), and we thought it’s a great idea to merge them in the same word? Of all the Trap-words of modern language, I feel this one is having the worst consequences.
Once you believe in something, you are subconsciously attracted to sources that confirm it and subconsciously avoid ones that reject it.
Bullshit plays a central role in sales and advertising, especially of addictive and harmful products.
We will never be able to stop political and corporate manipulation from existing. Our job is to see right through it and not be influenced one bit.
Stories, told in private by people whom we emotionally trust, are the ultimate influence. This is where you can make a difference in building your shield of Truth.
Emotional trust is biological and will always be more powerful than Intellectual trust.
You have to consciously remind yourself that Truth and emotions belong to different categories, require different approaches, and mixing them up is very counterproductive, both internally and in relationships.
The Truth-searcher tunes down their emotions. Except one. The Love for Truth.
People with high level of Meaning feel the value of Truth for everyone, and thus, fighting for the Truth becomes their form of love for the world.
Some people have a crazy Love for Truth, but only work with emotional trust. Which means they will likely end up in random places of the Bullshit coalition, despite their noble intentions.
People cope with all of their problems using various Boxes. And people are the most rewarding Boxes. In this common situation, we explode with emotional trust since we basically surrender our Freedom to some person. Whatever Intellectual trust we have to spread around is sadly gone.
If we have strong Flows, we feel no need to over-attach ourselves to a single person. This reduces emotional trust to normal levels and leaves space for Intellectual trust.
You don’t have many battles in life. You have one. Everything is connected to everything.
In general, science is to be trusted, just no system and no group of humans is perfect.
If you bring one person closer to the Truth, you change a life.
We want to live in a world with more Truth and less Bullshit.
The answer to any hard problem in life always comes from Flow.
Letting go of any structure is psychologically hard.
Never do anything that might instill Guilt or Shame.
The only way to really help someone get closer to the Truth takes Unconditional love.
Most people expect you to push back on their pushback. Surprise them and show your Unconditional love instead. These asymmetrical actions are what melts the ice.
People started believing in Bullshit due to emotional reasons. Only via emotional power will you be able to change their mind.
