Truth: A Study

TRUTH: A STUDY It is no minor matter. If one reflects deeply, one will find that man is a dual being—consisting of body and soul. Other than truth, all things that are a part of human life are connected with man’s bodily needs. Truth is what is desirable at the level of man’s spiritual needs. It would be incomprehensible if one were to say, that the things needed to fulfill man’s physical requirements are all absolute, but the truth, which meets man’s spiritual needs, is non-absolute in character. To accept this sort of division, one would have to believe that a vast contradiction is present in this world—that here, the things we require for our physical needs are present in an absolute sense, but what we need for the satisfaction of our spiritual needs—The Truth—is the only thing that does not have an absolute character. Truth is man’s greatest need. Without truth, man is incomplete. Truth is such a basic need for man that even if truth was not absolute, we would have to pretend that it was so. The fact of the matter is that not accepting the truth as an absolute is intellectual suicide.