Daily Inspiration Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

Gandhi frames truth not as a prize you win through clever argument, but as a light source that was there before you arrived. The rhetorical move is strategic: if truth is "by nature self-evident", then power, propaganda, and even law are demoted to temporary weather. What blocks the view is not complexity but "cobwebs of ignorance" - a metaphor that makes untruth feel passive, dusty, almost embarrassingly flimsy. Lies, in this worldview, don’t need to be heroically defeated; they need to be brushed aside.

The subtext is where the politics sit. Gandhi is speaking to an empire and to a colonized society trained to doubt its own moral perception. By insisting on self-evidence, he sidesteps the colonizer's favorite terrain: endless debate over who is "civilized", who is "fit", whose facts count. Truth, for Gandhi, is not validated by institutions; it indicts them. That’s why the image of "shines clear" matters: clarity becomes a form of moral pressure, an invitation to see and therefore to act.

Contextually, this aligns with satyagraha: resistance grounded in the belief that moral reality has a gravity stronger than coercion. The line also flatters and burdens the listener. If truth is obvious once you clear your eyes, then failing to recognize it becomes less a mistake than a choice. Gandhi turns epistemology into accountability.