Quotes About Truth

he who hears only a Will to Truth in the background, and nothing else, cannot certainly boast of the sharpest ears.

On account of those absolute and impatient ones, be not jealous, thou lover of truth! Never yet did truth cling to the arm of an absolute one.

At the moment when anyone begins to take philosophy seriously, all the world believes the opposite." —Human, All Too Human, "Assorted Opinions and Maxims

We see that science also rests on faith; there is simply no science without presuppositions

He who destroys the illusions in himself and others is punished by nature, the cruelest tyrant.

But the state tells lies in all the tongues of good and evil; and whatever it says it lies—and whatever it has it has stolen. Everything about it is false;

We invented the concept 'purpose': in reality purpose is lacking.…

Representatives of truth. The champions of truth are hardest to find, not when it is dangerous to tell it, but rather when it is boring.

In the end one has to do everything oneself in order to know a few things oneself: that is, one has a lot to do. But a curiosity of my type remains after all the most agreeable of all vices—sorry, I meant to say: the love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.—

Granted that we want the truth: WHY NOT RATHER untruth? And uncertainty? Even ignorance? The problem of the value of truth presented itself before us—or was it we who presented ourselves before the problem?

Judgements, value judgements concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgements are stupidities.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.

Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.

Success has always been a great liar

We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.

Cada dia en que no bailemos, al menos una vez, debemos considerarlo perdido. Y cada verdad que no venga acompañada de al menos una risa, debera considerarse mentira.

And Ningauble began to sort out in his mind the details of the Mouser's story, treasuring it the more because he knew it was an improvisation, his favorite proverb being, He who lies artistically, treads closer to the truth than ever he knows.

But was Percy's approach the only one? Did you have to lie to them, push them, treat them as seven billion morons?

Percy's callous description of humanity as "seven billion morons" was uncomfortably close to the truth.

But disillusion is a healthy thing. It leads to reality.

he must first be true to his god's nature: which is, to hear what we say and hold us to it, to speak truth to man about what's going on in distant places, and to prophecy honestly—though he may try to trick us with words if we don't listen to him very carefully.

Quien miente con arte se acerca a la verdad más de lo que imagina.

Science is not wisdom.