Truth in a nightgown (translated from Spanish)

Quevedo says that "one mustn't show truth naked, but rather in a nightgown", and the truth is we are unable to show her naked. Human beings are, by nature, political in their way of presenting things. They try to make what they say attractive, tempting. This is because, in its pure form, truth is not attractive. Truth is a bitter medicine which we try to sweeten with our greater or lesser ability with words.

This doesn't mean that one is being dishonest. What is presented is, in the end, true. What I will try in this blog is to always show truth, or at least what I believe is the truth (because as a human being I will make mistakes in judgment, that I am sure of), but without the pretension of showing "the naked truth" without adorning it. To say "the naked truth" is not amongst the capacities of man. I prefer to show her honest, reserved, dressed as well as I can dress her, but without perverting her, with frank honesty, trying to protect her from the attacks of the greatest perversion of the human capacity for dressing truth: falsehood.

Man has the capacity to sweeten words, but also the capacity to pervert this gift. Those same beautiful and enticing words are used to adorn lies, to adorn a false and dishonest creation which tries to usurp truth and confuse all who listen.

Let us defend truth, let us give her the most beautiful words we are capable of giving her, and above all, let us deny falsehood of our words.