Quotes About Truth

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad.

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

I'll tell you a big secret, my friend: Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.

A person I knew use to divide human beings into three categories Those who prefer have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden.

History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.

How many crimes are committed simply because their authors could not endure being wrong.

The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world.

The need to be right -- the sign of a vulgar mind.

The truth, as the light, makes blind.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem...

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

Reality i merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.

Reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one

It is a magnificent feeling to recognize the unity of complex phenomena which appear to be things quite apart from the direct visible truth.

Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty, and truth.

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves — such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine. The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty.