Truth Quotes

"The fragment contains more truth than the complete work."

"Truth hides in what we refuse to acknowledge."

"Truth resides where contradictions refuse to resolve."

"We cannot escape the fact that we are all guilty simply by virtue of being alive in a world of injustice."

"Lying has become a way of life in politics; truth is now the exception."

"The loss of truth is the death of politics."

"It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true."

"When you are studying any matter, or considering any philosophy, ask yourself only: what are the facts, and what is the truth that the facts bear out? Never let yourself be diverted either by what you wish to believe or by what you think would have good social effects if it were believed; but look only and solely at what are the facts."

"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."

"I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction."

"We seek truth, but truth seeks us first."

"To all questions that I ask in my own name as a being, I receive answers, even if they are not spoken in words."

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics—but the greatest is the unlived life."

"The Thou can never become an It."

"You cannot know truth by studying it; you must live into it."

"Necessity is the explanation of why things are as they are."

"Reality is what most resists our understanding."

"Truth wears many masks, but beneath all of them is the same face."

"The true is not what corresponds to reality but what opens us to the other."

"Truth emerges in the space between persons, never in isolation."

"Neutrality is a myth."

"The disaster is that which does not reach the light of day."

"The disaster escapes both meaning and meaninglessness."

"Truth arrives as the disruption of certainty."

"The secret is not what is hidden but what cannot be disclosed."

"The primary word I-You can be spoken only with the whole being."

"Genuine dialogue is impossible if there is no desire to understand the other."

"Authenticity cannot be feigned; it can only be lived."

"To speak truth is to speak from one's whole being."

"The most profound truths cannot be spoken; they must be lived."