Quotes About Truth

Aufklärung es la traducción circunspecta de Gnosis.

Verdad es aquello que cualquier imbécil refuta.

La oscuridad de un texto no es defecto cuando lo que dice sólo puede decirse oscuramente.

A revolutionary discovers the "true spirit of the revolution" only when he stands in front of a revolutionary tribunal sentencing him to death.

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

Nicht nach Freiheit strebt der Verstand, sondern nach Unterwerfung. Die Wahrheit ist der Glanz der Notwendigkeit.

All science feeds on the convictions that it strangles.

La filosofía honesta no pretender explicar sino circunscribir el misterio».

Die Zeit ist weniger zu fürchten, weil sie tötet, als weil sie demaskiert.

Relativism is the solution of one who is incapable of putting things in order. Truths do not contradict each other except when they fall out of order.

We who want to admit nothing but what has value, will always seem naïve to those who recognize nothing but what is in force.

Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.

I can call nothing by name if that is not his name. I call a cat a cat, and Rollet a rogue.

At times truth may not seem probable.

Le vrai peut quelquefois n'être pas vraisemblable. (At times truth may not seem probable)

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

C'est une belle allégorie, dans la Bible, que cet arbre de la science du bien et du mal qui produit la mort. Cet emblème ne veut-il pas dire que lorsqu'on a pénétré le fond des choses, la pert des illusions amène la mort de l'âme, c'est-à-dire un désintéressement complet sur tout ce qui touches les autres hommes?

Ce que j'ai appris, je l'ai oublié ; ce que je sais, je l'ai inventé.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.

So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.

Je ne connais, disait Tatiana, aucune étreinte qui soit feinte. Toutes les étreintes sont par définition spontanées. Le jour où elles ne seront que le résultat musculaire de pensées calculatrices, l'humanité s'en ira, sang ancien, couler hors de nous.

Yet the voice could take fright . This Kathy Kerouac foresaw only too well when syllables suddenly started coming out of her mouth like little fragments of oblivion giving her the impression she was contradicting herself. It was in these moments, when words were both true and false, solemn and light, on the tip of her tongue and deep in the throat, that space shrank in her mouth like a hard-felt blow.

The truth is the thing I invented so I could live.