Quotes About Truth

If there were a verb meaning to believe falsely, it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.

The truly apocalyptic view of the world is that things do not repeat themselves. It isn't absurd, e.g., to believe that the age of science and technology is the beginning of the end for humanity; that the idea of great progress is delusion, along with the idea that the truth will ultimately be known; that there is nothing good or desirable about scientific knowledge and that mankind, in seeking it, is falling into a trap. It is by no means obvious that this is not how things are.

In the world everything is as it is and happens as it does happen. In it, there is no value, - and if there were, it would be of no value.

A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.

Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.

Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.

It's not how the world is, but that it is, that is cause for astonishment.

There is a truth in Schopenhauer's view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosophy, with a beginning and end, is a sort of contradiction. ... In philosophy matters are not simple enough for us to say 'Let's get a rough idea', for we do not know the country except by knowing the connections between the roads.

Roughly speaking: to say of two things that they are identical is nonsense, and to say of one thing that it is identical with itself is to say nothing.

What is the proof that I know something? Most certainly not my saying I know it.

Roughly speaking: objects are colourless

The agreement or disagreement or its sense with reality constitutes its truth or falsity.

A confession has to be part of your new life.

Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.

All numbers in logic must be capable of justification.   Or rather it must become plain that there are no numbers in logic.   There are no pre-eminent numbers.

But all propositions of logic say the same thing. That is, nothing.

To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.

Most propositions and questions, that have been written about philosophical matters, are not false, but senseless. ... (They are of the same kind as the question whether the Good is more or less identical than the Beautiful.)

At the foundation of well-founded belief lies belief that is not founded.

The truth can be spoken only by someone who is already at home in it; not by someone who still lives in untruthfulness, and does no more than reach out towards it from within untruthfulness.

The essential business of language is to assert or deny facts. Given

It used to be said that God could create anything except what would be contrary to the laws of logic. The truth is that we could not say what an illogical world would look like.

It is clear that ethics cannot be expressed. Ethics are transcendental. (Ethics and æsthetics are one.)

2.223 In order to discover whether the picture is true or false we must compare it with reality. 2.224 It cannot be discovered from the picture alone whether it is true or false. 2.225 There is no picture which is a priori true.