Truth Quotes

"Evil wills to leave no traces."

"Reality and experience are frequently quite opposed."

"Morality is not invented but discovered through careful attention to human nature."

"The good cannot be defined in purely subjective or relative terms."

"The distinction between being and seeming is fundamental to ethics."

"Moral progress is possible only if we believe in objective human goods."

"We cannot escape responsibility by claiming that morality is merely subjective."

"Moral truth is not discovered through introspection but through careful attention to reality."

"We must think of the good not as a feeling but as an objective reality."

"What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is the exact opposite of the will to believe."

"If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it."

"Many of our beliefs are caused by our desires rather than by evidence."

"Truth may be silenced, but it cannot be permanently buried."

"Truth is like the sun; you cannot look directly at it, only at what it illuminates."

"To understand the actual world as it is, we must begin from desire, not from intellect alone."

"The quest for truth requires the courage to question everything."

"The evaluation of character matters more than the evaluation of isolated acts."

"Moral philosophy must ground itself in facts about human nature and human need."

"The virtues are connected to our deep human needs and purposes."

"The good we pursue is not arbitrary but rooted in human nature itself."

"The vicious have cut themselves off from genuine human goods."

"Moral facts are facts about what conduces to genuine human flourishing."

"The unity of virtue means that genuine virtue cannot coexist with grave vice."

"Our moral judgments reflect deep truths about what makes life genuinely worth living."

"To say something is real is to say it has causal powers."

"What we call 'reality' is shaped by how we describe it."

"Truth is not something we possess but something we do."

"Truth demands we revise our beliefs when evidence contradicts them."

"Truth is like a jewel; it requires no setting to shine."

"The soul's thirst for truth cannot be quenched by facts alone."