Truth Quotes

What is truth? These quotes explore honesty, reality, and the courage it takes to face both.

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"To deny the existence of undecidable propositions is to deny the fundamental nature of mathematics."
Gödel, Kurt
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"Truth is independent of what any individual or society believes about it."
Gödel, Kurt
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"The laws of logic are not inventions but discoveries about the structure of possible worlds."
Gödel, Kurt
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"To deny the existence of abstract objects is to undermine the very foundations of mathematics."
Gödel, Kurt
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"The notion of truth cannot be separated from the capacity to recognize it."
Dummett, Michael
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"The principle of bivalence assumes we can always determine truth or falsehood, but this is not always the case."
Dummett, Michael
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"The verification principle reveals what we truly mean by our statements."
Dummett, Michael
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"A meaningful distinction must be one that makes a practical difference to how we speak and act."
Dummett, Michael
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"The truth of a statement depends on whether the world is as the statement represents it to be."
Dummett, Michael
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"The debate between realists and anti-realists is fundamentally about the nature of truth."
Dummett, Michael
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"Realism and anti-realism differ fundamentally in their views about the nature of truth."
Dummett, Michael
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"The correspondence theory of truth requires clarification of what it means for propositions to correspond to facts."
Dummett, Michael
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"Truth is not an intrinsic property of sentences but a relation between sentences and the world."
Dummett, Michael
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"Truth demands we face our comfortable illusions with unflinching honesty"
Jackson, Frank
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"Truth often wears the uncomfortable mask of what we'd rather not acknowledge"
Jackson, Frank
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"Truth is not relative; it corresponds to reality."
Searle, John
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"The world exists independently of us, but our knowledge of it does not."
Searle, John
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"Facts are not independent of human interpretations."
Searle, John
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"Objectivity requires a perspective, and perspectives are always limited by where we stand."
Nagel, Thomas
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"The subjective point of view is not an obstacle to understanding—it is the central phenomenon."
Nagel, Thomas
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"The view from nowhere is impossible—all knowledge comes from somewhere."
Nagel, Thomas
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"The mind presents a unique domain where first-person authority cannot be disputed."
Nagel, Thomas
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"The view from the inside is as valid as the view from the outside."
Nagel, Thomas
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"We know consciousness exists with absolute certainty, yet we struggle to explain it."
Nagel, Thomas
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"The appeal to consciousness is not mystical—it is an appeal to evident fact."
Nagel, Thomas
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"To deny consciousness is to deny the very ground of all knowledge."
Nagel, Thomas
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"Subjective reality is not less real than objective reality; it is differently real."
Nagel, Thomas
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"The existence of subjective experience is the deepest fact about our universe."
Nagel, Thomas
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"The subjective point of view cannot be eliminated from any complete account of reality."
Nagel, Thomas
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"The reality of consciousness is not diminished by our inability to fully explain it."
Nagel, Thomas