The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never! You're asked an unexpected question, you don't even flinch, it takes just a second to get yourself under control, you know just what you have to say to hide the truth, and you speak very convincingly, and nothing in your face twitches to give you away. But the truth, alas, has been disturbed by the question, and it rises up from the depths of your soul to flicker in your eyes and all is lost.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that while one can verbally disguise the truth, true emotions and truths are often revealed through the eyes.
Mikhail Bulgakov highlights the inherent tension between spoken deception and the unspoken truth that can be seen in one's eyes. No matter how convincingly one can articulate a lie or conceal the truth through words, the eyes can betray a person's true feelings and intentions due to the deep emotional connection they hold. This quote illustrates the struggle between the desire to maintain a facade and the involuntary nature of genuine emotional expression.
In practice
During a public speaking event where the topic of honesty is being discussed.
But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared? After all, shadows are cast by things and people. Here is the shadow of my sword. But shadows also come from trees and living beings. Do you want to strip the earth of all trees and living things just because of your fantasy of enjoying naked light? You're stupid.
just like a murderer jumps of nowhere in an ally, love jumped out in front of us and struck us both at once
Well, as everyone knows, once witchcraft gets started, there's no stopping it.
Remove the document—and you remove the man.
Literature has become my life.
The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!
The problem then with Jesus is that he cannot be removed from his time and transplanted into our own without simply creating him anew
A lot of times, real life is more surreal than writing.
The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.
No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker.
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them.
There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, 'That person I see is a savage monster;' instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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