Quotes About Truth

wherefore one who divines well in regard to the truth will also be able to divine well in regard to probabilities. It

not that we should do both (for one ought not to persuade people to do what is wrong), but that the real state of the case may not escape us, and that we ourselves may be able to counteract false arguments, if another makes an unfair use of them.

However, it is not the same with the subject matter, but, generally speaking, that which is true and better is naturally always easier to prove and more likely to persuade.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Sophocles said that he drew men as they ought to be; Euripides, as they are.

The truth is that, just as in the other imitative arts one imitation is always of one thing, so in poetry the story, as an imitation of action, must represent one action, a complete whole, with its several incidents so closely connected that the transposal or withdrawal of any one of them will disjoin and dislocate the whole. For that which makes no perceptible difference by its presence or absence is no real part of the whole.

If, however, the poetic end might have been as well or better attained without sacrifice of technical correctness in such matters, the impossibility is not to be justified, since the description should be, if it can, entirely free from error.

a man investigating principles cannot argue with one who denies their existence.

El filósofo no pretende aparecer si no tal cual es, busca la verdad con el solo fin de conocer sin mira alguna de interés personal; su vida es un sacrificio perpetuo en honor a la ciencia.

For the carpenter's and the geometer's inquiries about the right angle are different also; the carpenter restricts himself to what helps his work, but the geometer inquires into what, or what sort of things, the right angle is, since he studies the truth. We must do the same, then in other areas too, [seeking the proper degree of exactness], so that digressions do not overwhelm our main task.

And if a man believes nothing, but believes it equally so and not so, how would his state be different from a vegetable's?

Freedom is a property of the will which is realized through truth. Freedom is given to man as a task to be accomplished.

The things about which we inquire are equal in number to the things we understand.

Existentia nunquam ad essentiam rei pertinent.

If the poet's description be criticized as not true to fact, one may urge perhaps that the object ought to be as described—an answer like that of Sophocles, who said that he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.

La historia cuenta lo que sucedió; la poesía lo que debía suceder.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

Pretože básnici sú tej samej prirodzenosti ako my, najpresved?ivejÅ¡ie pôsobia tí, ktorých ovládajú nejaké váÅ¡ne; pobúrený buráca a rozhnevaný sa hnevá najpravdivejÅ¡ie.

whenever a reasonable explanation comes to sight as to why a thing appears to be but is not true, this makes for greater trust in the truth.

Brian's face turned pouty. "So you were just blowing smoke up my ass." Anna smiled dimly. "You may have been inhaling, dear, but I wasn't blowing.

You don't really know for certain about a family until somebody dies. You don't know anything until that happens." She

C'était le grand point fort de l'amour : quelqu'un qui vous attend et vous déclare que le chemin sera moins pénible, à partir de maintenant. Même si ce n'est peut-être pas vrai.

It makes more sense if you've lived it." A

The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.