Quotes about truth
truth real real-questions
The real question is: How much truth can I stand? Friedrich Nietzsche
truth lying religion
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
truth history wish
The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more you need to seduce the senses to it.
truth atheism want
There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value. This absolute will to truth: what is it? Is it the will to not allow ourselves to be deceived? Is it the will not to deceive? One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.
truth existentialism shallow
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
truth integrity degrees
Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who know it completely would perish, in which case the strength of a spirit should be measured according to how much of the 'truth' one could still barely endure- or to put it more clearly, to what degree one would require it to be thinned down, shrouded, sweetened, blunted, falsified.
truth believe men
Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then inquire.
truth past yesterday
Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today. Franz Grillparzer
truth thinking heterosexuality-is
I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle. Jeanette Winterson
truth opposites stories
As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way. Jean-Paul Sartre
truth firsts comfort
Truth is meant to save you first. The comfort comes afterward. Georges Bernanos
truth common
Whatever is in common is true; but likeness is false. Georges Braque
truth truth-and-beauty truth-and-falsehood
Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.
truth-is
I'd just say that truth is power and vice versa. George Saunders
truth thinking views
I don't think I could tell the whole truth about anything. That's a pretty heavy burden, because we all just view the world through this little piece of coke bottle.
truth philosophy medicine
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
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.