Quotes About Truth

The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare offense.

How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?

Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise will you seek truth during the night, and your soul will have been hungry.

For truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education: dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with pen- that one must learn how to write

it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified .

Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

Whoever knows he is deep, strives for clarity; whoever would like to appear deep to the crowd, strives for obscurity. For the crowd considers anything deep if only it cannot see to the bottom: the crowd is so timid and afraid of going into the water.

Reason in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.

Do you deserve truth? You sure seek it, but do you deserve it? If you want to see real things burning you first have to reach up to the height of the fire.

State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: 'I, the state, am the people.

The majority of men prefer delusion to truth. It soothes. It is easy to grasp.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. -

You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.

the lie is a condition of life.

Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.

Reality is a flux, an endless becoming that is beyond words and language - all language is metaphor, useful to us but ultimately detached from reality.

Healthy introspection, without undermining oneself; it is a rare gift to venture into the unexplored depths of the self, without delusions or fictions, but with an uncorrupted gaze.

there is no being behind doing, effecting, becoming; the doer is merely a fiction added to the deed—the deed is everything.

Even the most courageous among us only rarely has the courage to face what he already knows.

inability to lie is still far from being love to truth. Be on your guard! ... He who cannot lie, doth not know what truth is.

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

He who does not lie does not know what truth is.

Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?