Truth Quotes
The world of today has achieved much, but for all its declared love for humanity, it has based itself far more on hatred and violence than on the virtues that make one human. War is the negation of truth and humanity. War may be unavoidable sometimes, but its progeny are terrible to contemplate. Not mere killing, for man must die, but the deliberate and persistent propagation of hatred and falsehood, which gradually become the normal habits of the people.
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they have noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity.
How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare? That became for me the real measure of value.
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