Truth Quotes

"Truth cannot be spoken; it can only be lived."

"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be either bad or good."

"Truth is not a system but an encounter."

"Truth cannot be possessed, only lived."

"Truth is not something discovered in isolation, but something we negotiate through dialogue and shared understanding."

"The concept of truth is inseparable from the practices through which we establish and verify claims."

"The truth we seek is not independent of the means through which we seek it."

"Conviction is the conscience of the mind."

"Truth is like a crystal; it cannot be fractured without losing its beauty."

"Genuine responsibility exists only where there is real responding."

"The single human being, in his whole reality, is the first fact of existence."

"Only the word that is spoken between men can have meaning."

"A person is not a thing and cannot be treated as a thing."

"Truth is not a possession but a presence."

"The word must be lived to be true."

"The limits of my language mean the limits of my world."

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

"What can be shown cannot be said."

"Agreement in definitions is not what grounds agreement in language."

"We deceive ourselves about language; our concepts wear a false dress."

"The sense of a proposition is how things would be if the proposition were true."

"We must prefer a cruel truth to a comfortable delusion."

"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."

"Truth requires the sacrifice of cherished beliefs."

"Truth has a quality that falsehood can never possess: it endures."

"The trace of the infinite is written in the face of the Other."

"I cannot escape responsibility through knowledge."

"The face strips away all masks."

"The face speaks in the nakedness of its destitution."

"We live not by possessing truth, but by responding to it."