Truth Quotes

"Subjective experience has a first-personal character that cannot be captured by third-person description."

"The appearance-reality distinction cuts deeper than most philosophers have recognized."

"Objectivity in ethics means that some moral judgments are genuinely true or false."

"Values are not subjective projections but have a claim to objectivity."

"The subjective character of experience is real and demands philosophical respect."

"The search for objective truth does not require denying the reality of subjective experience."

"Subjectivity is not a defect but a constitutive feature of conscious existence."

"Objectivity is not the same as detachment; we can be objective while engaged."

"The claim that consciousness is merely an illusion is self-refuting."

"The objectivity of truth does not depend on the objectivity of our access to it."

"Truth is not simply 'out there' independent of all schemes of description."

"The correspondence theory of truth is fundamentally flawed."

"Ethics is about what speakers ideally would agree to."

"Truth is what would be believed at the ideal limit of inquiry."

"Truth pluralism avoids the correspondence theory's pitfalls."

"Deflationism about truth captures what matters practically."

"The concept of truth is not something we discover in nature; it is something we construct through our logical systems and definitions."

"Every statement about reality must be grounded in observable facts and coherent reasoning."

"Truth is not relative to observer or culture; it exists in the relationship between language and reality."

"We pay a price for clarity: the loss of comfortable ambiguity and vagueness."

"The logical structure of language reveals something profound about the structure of reality itself."

"Every error in reasoning can be traced to a failure of definition or logical rigor."

"The boundaries between disciplines are artifacts of language; reality itself is seamless and whole."

"We do not create truth through our definitions; we create systems in which truth can be expressed and verified."

"The pursuit of logical consistency is not a luxury; it is a necessity for any coherent thought or action."

"Truth and falsity are not properties of isolated sentences but relations between language and reality."

"The price of truth is eternal vigilance against the slippery nature of language and meaning."

"Let us fix our attention outside ourselves and on external reality."

"There is a specific disability which prevents a vast number of girls from being good mathematicians."

"We cannot explain away consciousness; we must confront it directly and honestly."