Quotes About Truth

All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.

Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

The strength of a person's spirit would then be measured by how much 'truth' he could tolerate, or more precisely, to what extent he needs to have it diluted, disguised, sweetened, muted, falsified.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.

The real world is much smaller than the imaginary

There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions.

Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.

What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions — they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force.

In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.

No artist tolerates reality.

To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

Belief means not wanting to know what is true.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.

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.

No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.

The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more you need to seduce the senses to it.