Truth Quotes

"We are apt to overlook our own vices while being quick to condemn them in others."

"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."

"Facts are what make a proposition true or false."

"It is one thing to describe methods of language, and quite another to describe reality."

"One cannot think illogically; one can only think falsely."

"Nothing is hidden; everything lies in the open."

"The picture is attached to reality; it reaches right up to it."

"The true method of philosophy would really be the following: to say nothing except what can be said."

"If someone says he has no doubt what he has said, then I can be sure that he has said nothing."

"To be clear about the ethical is to be unclear about everything else."

"All that is the case is the totality of facts, not of things."

"When you talk about essence you are always saying that things could not be other than they are."

"Facts determine what is true or false; values determine what is good or bad."

"Reference is not achieved by description alone, but by the speaker's intention and use."

"The grammatical subject of a sentence need not correspond to the logical subject."

"The search for certainty in metaphysics is often misguided."

"Causation is not a relation between isolated events, but a conceptual framework we impose."

"Language does not represent reality in the way a mirror reflects an image."

"Truth is not correspondence with an independent reality, but something more complex."

"The relationship between language and reality is more intimate than traditional correspondence theory allows."

"The problem of universals arises from trying to separate language from use."

"The attempt to ground all knowledge in indubitable foundations is fundamentally misguided."

"The logical form of a proposition is not revealed by its grammatical structure."

"Existence is not a predicate, and attempting to treat it as one creates philosophical confusion."

"The attempt to reconstruct all meaningful discourse from pure logic inevitably fails."

"To deny the reality of consciousness is to bite a bullet that cannot ultimately be swallowed."

"The logical positivists' attempt to eliminate metaphysics through linguistics was itself based on unexamined assumptions."

"The concept of truth is less mysterious when we stop trying to define it in abstract terms."

"The problem of induction is unsolvable if we accept certain epistemological assumptions we should reject."

"Metaphysical positions often disguise themselves as merely logical or linguistic claims."