Truth: A Study

IN SEARCH OF TRUTH all the way up to Z! It may be equally true that from A to Z, everything is utterly false and that there is no such thing as truth! No serious person can accept this absurd intellectual jugglery. A serious person searching for the truth can honestly admit, “I have not yet found the truth. I am presently only a seeker.” However, no serious and sane person can say that truth is not something absolute and that there is nothing like Absolute Truth. Every single thing in the universe in which man lives is absolute. So, a star is a star; it is not an elephant. An elephant is an elephant, not a star. Likewise, everything is, in a known sense, an absolute thing. Moreover, if anything has not been known in an absolute sense, then man continuously tries to discover it in the absolute sense. The same thing applies to man’s personality. By his very nature, man desires the absolute. He wants to live in certainty. He wants that when he knows a woman is his mother, he should know this fact as certainty. In the same way, when he knows a house is his house, he wants to feel sure that it is indeed his. If this were not the case, man would be uncertain about everything in life. Moreover, it is a fact that man cannot live very long and be at peace in the face of uncertainty. These facts clearly show that the concept of the absolute is entirely in accordance with man’s nature. Contrary to this, thinking that nothing in this world has an absolute