Quotes About Truth

Only the defeated come to possess sound ideas about the nature of things.

Let us beware of discourse where the adjective "natural" without quotation marks abounds: somebody is deceiving himself, or wants to deceive us. From natural borders to natural religion.

Religion is the only serious thing, but one need not take seriously every declaration of homo religiosus.

Im Universum gibt es Inseln der Ordnung. Aber die angebliche Ordnung des Universums ist ein ideologisches Artefakt.

Nichts was irgendeinem Wesen in irgendeiner Situation grundsätzlich möglich ist, ist von grundsätzlicher Bedeutung.

No hay tontería en que el hombre moderno no sea capaz de creer, siempre que eluda creer en Cristo

No es en el descampado del mundo en donde el hombre muere de frío, es en el palacio de conceptos que el intelecto levanta.

Vulgarity consists in striving to be what we are not.

That Christianity cures social diseases, as some say, or that, on the contrary, it poisons the society that adopts it, as others assert, are theses that interest the sociologist but are of no interest for a Christian. A convert to Christianity has converted because he believes it is true.

Not seeking the truth is a sign of mediocrity; but it is no sign of greatness to find them.

The individual who lies to himself, just like the society that does not lie to itself, soon rots and dies.

Las matemáticas son la poesía del principio de identidad.

In tijden van volledige vrijheid neemt onverschilligheid voor de waarheid zo'n hoge vlucht, dat niemand de moeite neemt om een waarheid te bevestigen of weerleggen.

Natural inequalities would make the democrat's life bitter, if slander did not exist.

Primitive man transforms objects into subjects; modern man transforms subjects into objects. We can suppose that the former deceives himself, but we know with certainty that the latter is wrong.

Toda sociedade que se crê senhora de sua história, que se sente segura de seus propósitos, convicta da excelência de seus princípios e persuadida de possuir a verdade, tiraniza e oprime.

To say that freedom consists of something other than doing what we want is a lie. That it is proper, on the other hand, to limit freedom is an obvious fact. But deceit begins when they seek to identify freedom with the limitations they impose on it.

Though he knows he cannot win, the reactionary has no desire to lie.

Negarse a admirar es la marca de la bestia.

Las noticias son el substituto de las verdades.

Die Wahrheit des Menschen ist nichts weiter als eine aufrichtige Überzeugung. Wahrheit ist, was wir als Wahrheit beurteilen, nachdem wir die Gründe erwogen, die Argumente bedacht und unsere Überzeugung auf das breiteste Fundament der Aufrichtigkeit und Ehrlichkeit gestellt haben. Die Wahrheit ist eine Tugend - wie die Blüte, die manchen harten und knorrigen moralischen Wurzeln entstammt. Vielleicht sollte man in der Logik lediglich ein Kapitel der Ethik sehen.

The historical importance of a man rarely corresponds to his intimate nature. History is full of victorious morons.

Racionalismo es el seudónimo oficial del Gnosticismo.

Thinking corrupts the imbecile.