Truth Quotes
What is truth? These quotes explore honesty, reality, and the courage it takes to face both.
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"Truth appears only through the cracks in the system of total administration."Adorno, Theodor
"Language shapes reality in ways we rarely recognize or resist"Marcuse, Herbert
"False consciousness masquerades as natural human nature"Marcuse, Herbert
"Truth telling becomes revolutionary in a society built on lies"Marcuse, Herbert
"Truth is something we participate in, not something we possess."Gadamer, Hans-Georg
"Truth occurs when we least expect it, when we are open to being addressed."Gadamer, Hans-Georg
"Truth reveals itself to those who are genuinely open to dialogue."Gadamer, Hans-Georg
"The claim of truth overrides all subjective preferences."Gadamer, Hans-Georg
"The question of truth cannot be separated from the question of power and ideology."Althusser, Louis
"Truth claims must be vindicated through argumentative discourse, not power or coercion."Habermas, Jürgen
"Consensus achieved through manipulation or distortion of communication is not genuine agreement."Habermas, Jürgen
"The exchange of commodities is the exchange of lies dressed as truths."Horkheimer, Max
"Language has become so corrupted that truth-telling requires inventing new words."Horkheimer, Max
"The truth about society is that it tells itself constant lies."Horkheimer, Max
"Truth is never absolute but is the expression of a particular historical standpoint."Lukács, György
"I am not what I am."Lacan, Jacques
"The letter always arrives at its destination."Lacan, Jacques
"The truth always comes as a surprise."Lacan, Jacques
"Language is where truth stumbles."Lacan, Jacques
"The big Other doesn't exist."Lacan, Jacques
"Truth creates reality, not the reverse."Lacan, Jacques
"What we repress always returns."Lacan, Jacques
"The symptom speaks what cannot be said."Lacan, Jacques
"The real emerges through failure."Lacan, Jacques
"The truth of the subject is his desire."Lacan, Jacques
"What is repressed returns as symptom."Lacan, Jacques
"The symptom is the royal road to truth."Lacan, Jacques
"Language itself is a totality of determined notions and concepts, not just nomenclature."Gramsci, Antonio
"The intellectuals of the dominant class work to naturalize and universalize what are actually class-specific interests."Gramsci, Antonio
"Common sense often represents a confused and contradictory synthesis of many historical periods and ideologies."Gramsci, Antonio