Quotes about truth
truth philosophy medicine
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. Friedrich Nietzsche
truthful enough truthfulness
Perhaps no one as yet has been truthful enough about what "truthfulness" is.
truth lying may
The mouth may lie, alright, but the face it makes nonetheless tells the truth.
truth errors way
Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.
truth parables
On every parable you ride to every truth.
truth knowledge vulgarity
The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!
truth knowledge moral
The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.
truth philosophical men
What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.
truth eye moon
Look not into the sun! Even the moon is too bright for your nocturnal eyes!
truth freedom confused
Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused with the tree of life.
truth believe names
Could truth perhaps be a woman who has reasons for not permitting her reasons to be seen? Could her name perhaps be--to speak Greek--Baubo?... Oh, those Greeks! They understood how to live: to do that it is necessary to stop bravely at the surface, the fold, the skin, to adore the appearance, to believe in forms, in tones, in words, in the whole Olympus of appearance! Those Greeks were superficial--out of profundity!
truth justice pure
Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just.
truth revenge children
Women are constituted in such a way that all truth (regarding men, love, children, society, the purpose of life) disgusts them, and in such a way that they try to revenge themselves on anyone who opens their eyes.
truth boring dangerous
It is not when it is dangerous to tell the truth that its advocates are hardest to find, but when it is boring.
truth men animal
Error has made animals into men; is truth in a position to make men into animals again?
truth
We are all afraid of the truth.
truth world longing
The will to truth is merely the longing for a stable world.
truth struggle knowledge
Over immense periods of time the intellect produced nothing but errors. A few of these proved to be useful and helped to preserve the species: those who hit upon or inherited these had better luck in their struggle for themselves and their progeny. Such erroneous articles of faith... include the following: that there are things, substances, bodies; that a thing is what it appears to be; that our will is free; that what is good for me is also good in itself.
truth knowledge errors
We have arranged for ourselves a world in which we can live - by positing bodies, lines, planes, causes and effects, motion and rest, form and content; without these articles of faith nobody could now endure life. But that does not prove them. Life is no argument. The conditions of life might include error.
truth knowledge reality
The reasons for which 'this' world has been characterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate its reality; any other kind of reality is absolutely indemonstrable.
truth knowledge cutting
Metaphysical world.- It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head and cannot cut off this head; while the question nonetheless remains what of the world would still be there if one had cut it off.
truth abuse principles
The love of truth, virtue, and the happiness of mankind are specious pretexts, but not the inward principles that set divines at work; else why should they affect to abuse human reason, to disparage natural religion, to traduce the philosophers as they universally do? George Berkeley
truth lying men
He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
truth science games
Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.
truth heart reality
The heart is a temple wherein all truth resides. George Burns
truth credible i-can
Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so. George Bernard Shaw
truth knowledge media
The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident.
truth honesty honor
The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
truth boxing joking-around
My way of joking is to tell the truth
truth break-through light
The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.
truth fancy firsts
New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.
truth want needs
Sometimes what we want isn't what we need. Gena Showalter
truth inspiration humble
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. Galileo Galilei