Truth Quotes

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.

In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.

The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.

The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.

I condemn Christianity; I bring against the Christian Church the most terrible of all accusations that an accuser has ever had in his mouth. It is, to me, the greatest of all imaginable corruptions; it seeks to work the ultimate corruption, the worse possible corruption. The Christian Church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie, and every integrity into baseness of soul.

Women are constituted in such a way that all truth (regarding men, love, children, society, the purpose of life) disgusts them, and in such a way that they try to revenge themselves on anyone who opens their eyes.

Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself-in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity-is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.

Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions.

What convinces is not necessarily true-it is merely convincing: a note for asses.

On every parable you ride to every truth.