Quotes About Truth

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep the truth is that they are not even shallow.

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Judgments, value judgments 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 judgments are stupidities.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of the truth than lies.

Convictions are the more dangerous enemy of truth than lies.

Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true.

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

I have wound my way through a jungle of lies and am on the track of only half the truth. In China, nobody gets to know the whole truth.

The history of the world is the world's court of justice.

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

In fact he claimed that he was removing an untenable knowledge of God in order to make room for faith.

The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.

Never to talk about yourself is a refined form of hypocrisy.

No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

Nothing is beautiful, only man on this piece of navety rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second nothing is ugly but degenerate man-the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.