Quotes About Truth

The maxims of men disclose their hearts.

When one has one's hand full of truth it is not always wise to open it.

A crow is no whiter for being washed.

La belleza y la fealdad son un espejismo, porque los demás terminan viendo nuestro interior.

You deserve a lover who takes away the lies and brings you hope, coffee, and poetry.

Im Paradoxen erscheint die Wirklichkeit.

Der Wirklichkeit ist mit Logik nur zum Teil beizukommen.

Wahrheit ist ein Wort des Glaubens. Niemand vermag grausamer zu sein, als jene, die im Namen der Wahrheit handeln. Sie handeln auch im Namen der Gerechtigkeit.

Reality can be only partially attacked by logic.

It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere.

Whoever wants to hide a big scandal is best to stage a small one

Wer einen großen Skandal verheimlichen will, inszeniert am besten einen kleinen.

Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death.

When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.

Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.

That which needs to be proved cannot be worth much.

Necessity is not an established fact, but rather an interpretation.

'Faith' means not wanting to know what is true

Nothing is beautiful, except man alone: all aesthetics rests upon this naÔvetÈ, which is its first truth. Let us immediately add the second: nothing is ugly except the degenerating manóand with this the realm of aesthetic judgment is circumscribed.

Here the ways of men part: if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire

We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space -- how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

We are franker towards others than towards ourselves.

Only as an aesthetic phenomenon is existence and the world eternally justified.