The Library of Sanity
📜 Scroll of Truth
Prologue
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet.” — Shakespeare

So too with lies. Call them “alternative facts” if you like — they remain lies. Until we discover another universe, there is but one set of facts, one reality. We may call this simply: Truth.

I. The Universe Deceives
Truth is not obvious. The world looks flat. Time feels steady. We seem to touch matter, yet only electromagnetic force fields meet. Our senses are riddled with illusions.

To live well, we must admit that appearances deceive.

II. Desire as Weakness
Desire can blind us more than illusion. To want is to risk sacrifice. Some sacrifices are noble. Others corrupt.

Wealth pursued at all costs leaves us cold and hollow.

Power pursued by deception leaves us ignorant and weak.

But there is one thing never to be sacrificed: Truth itself.

III. Lies as Self-Sabotage
A lie is nothing but a feeble attempt to hide from reality — whether to comfort ourselves or to manipulate others.

The universe does not bend to lies. Closing your eyes in a car crash does not save you. Deception always weakens our power to interact with reality and robs us of the beauty only truth reveals.

Truth is Beauty. Beauty is Truth.

IV. Science as Humility
Science and logic are our best lanterns in the dark. If they were wrong about the great questions — evolution, the age of the Earth, the shape of the cosmos — how could they give us the miracle of this device you hold, with millions of transistors arranged in perfect order?

The secret of science is not arrogance but humility. When evidence proves it wrong, it does not cling in pride. It adapts, improves, and grows. This humility is power.

V. The War for Minds
History is soaked in blood where truth-seekers clashed with dreamers who mistook desire for reality. Even now, leaders sabotage education, preferring a populace blind to truth.

An enemy would do the same — for knowledge is our true power source. To weaken a people, dim their lanterns. To enslave a people, blind their children.

VI. The Failure of Dogma
For millennia, “infallible books” have been wielded to justify wars and stagnation. If science is the devil’s handiwork, then throw away your cars, pens, and screens. But if science is a gift of God, then to reject it is ingratitude.

VII. Selfishness as Illusion
Selfishness promises gain, but it creates the very suffering it claims to escape. Humanity flails in deep water, striking one another to stay afloat — not realizing we thrash in a shallow puddle. Stop the struggle, and the truth is revealed: the water is not deep at all.

VIII. The Duty of Truth
Do not fear the truth. It is the greatest good. To stand on the side of good is to seek it, to admit our fallibility, to let truth correct us.

Truth is the immovable object. It will remain when we are gone. It is greater than us all, the source of knowledge, consciousness, and power.

To know truth is to know we will never know it fully. To love truth is to confess our limits and strive anyway.

Epilogue
The path of truth is humility, courage, and wonder. It is the greatest beauty we will ever behold — and it is waiting for us, if only we choose to open our eyes.