Quotes About Truth

More and more now she could tell the difference between what was real and what was a mix of memory and nightmare; more and more she felt sure that if she spoke she would be speaking to the living, not ghosts.

It's easy to lie to people you're leaving.

Perhaps there was no magic for faling off your own mount and dying alone and unmasked.

I never knew my father," she said again, slowly. She could only tell the truth. "Of the rest, I may not speak.

Relativism is the solution of one who is incapable of putting things in order.

The philosopher is not the spokesman of his age, but an angel imprisoned in time.

An irreligious society cannot endure the truth of the human condition. It prefers a lie, no matter how idiotic it may be.

Truths are not relative. What is relative are opinions about truth.

The greatest modern error is not to proclaim that God died, but to believe that the devil has died.

Why deceive ourselves? Science has not answered a single important question.

The enemies of myth are not the friends of reality but of triviality.

Wir sollten uns nur den Dingen widmen, die bei einem Zusammenbruch unversehrt bleiben würden.

Sólo las letras antiguas curan la sarna moderna.

Science deceives us in three ways: by turning its propositions into norms, by disclosing its results rather than its methods, by ignoring its epistemological limitations.

To be right is just one more reason not to achieve any success.

Las verdades no están en la circunferencia de un círculo cuyo centro es el hombre. Las verdades se levantan en parajes fragosos que el hombre recorre siguiendo los meandros de una senda sinuosa que las revela, las oculta, finalmente las ostenta o las esconde.

The Left does not always kill, but it always lies.

The newspaper collects the previous day's garbage in order to feed it to us for breakfast.

There are words for deceiving others, like "rational." And others, like "dialectic," for deceiving oneself.

Het gevaarlijke idee is niet het valse, maar het gedeeltelijk juiste.

El máximo error moderno no es anunciar que Dios murió, sino creer que el diablo ha muerto.

Each one of a science's successive orthodoxies appears to be the definitive truth to the disciple.

No pertenezco a un mundo que perece. Prolongo y transmito una verdad que no muere.

Nicht nach der Wahrheit zu suchen ist ein Zeichen der Mittelmäßigkeit; doch es ist kein Zeichen der Größe, sie zu finden.