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