Quotes About Truth

I am, I exist, is necessarily true each time that I pronounce it, or that I mentally concieve it.

Considerando que quaisquer pensamentos que nos ocorrem quando estamos acordados nos podem também ocorrer enquanto dormimos, sem que exista nenhum, nesse caso, que seja correto, decidi fazer de conta que todas as coisas que até então haviam entrado no meu espírito não eram mais corretas do que as ilusões de meus sonhos.

Je donnerais tout ce que je sais pour la moitié de ce que je ne sais pas.

hay pocas personas que consientan en decir lo que creen, sino también porque muchas lo ignoran, pues el acto del pensamiento, por el cual uno cree una cosa, es diferente de aquel otro por el cual uno conoce que la cree, y por lo tanto muchas veces se encuentra aquél sin éste.

Son olarak yanl?? veya düzmece öÄŸretilere gelince, ne bir simyac?n?n verdiÄŸi sözler, ne bir astroloÄŸun kehanetleri, ne bir sihirbaz?n düzenbazl?klar?, ne de bildiklerinden fazlas?n? bilir görünmeyi meslek edinmiÅŸlerin hileleri ve övüngenlikleri taraf?ndan art?k aldat?lamayacak kadar bunlar?n deÄŸerinin ne olduÄŸunu zaten yeterince bildiÄŸimi düÅŸünüyordum.

I did not imitate the skeptics who doubt only for doubting's sake, and pretend to be always undecided; on the contrary, my whole intention was to arrive at a certainty, and to dig away the drift and the sand until I reached the rock or the clay beneath.

There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.

Descartes busca reglas fijas para descubrir verdades, no para defender tesis o exponer teorías.

Pour examiner la vérité, il est besoin, une fois dans sa vie, de mettre toutes choses en doute autant qu'il se peut.

punto de partida es la duda metódica. La duda cartesiana no es escepticismo, sino un procedimiento dialéctico de investigación, encaminado a desprender y aislar la primera verdad evidente, la primera idea clara y distinta, la primera naturaleza simple.

En realidad, la hipótesis del genio maligno ni es un juego ni un círculo de hierro, sino un movimiento dialéctico, muy importante en el curso del pensamiento cartesiano. Repárese en que la hipótesis del genio maligno, necesita, para ser destruida, la demostración de la existencia de Dios. Sólo cuando sabemos que Dios existe y que Dios es incapaz de engañarnos, sólo entonces queda deshecha la última

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.

La lucidité est la blessure la plus rapprochée du soleil.

It is because this sensation of truth provides me with a joy I would be unable to describe in human words that I believe it to be from some other world and that, through its miracle, I can already picture myself having passed through the gates of death.

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.

When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

Everything is self-evident.

The more one approaches madness, the more one equally approaches the truth, and if one does not fall into the former, one must end up necessarily in the latter.

Men cannot confront the naked truth of their own violence without the risk of abandoning themselves to it entirely. They have never had a very clear idea of this violence, and it is possible that the survival of all human societies of the past was dependent on this fundamental lack of understanding.

Let us not confuse true enlightenment with the idolatry of the here and now.

The world's myths do not reveal a way to interpret the Gospels, but exactly the reverse: the Gospels reveal to us the way to interpret myth.

Humankind exhausts, little by little, all illusions, including inferior notions of God swept away by atheism.