Truth Quotes

"Modern moral discourse is in a state of grave disorder."

"The human good is not a matter of subjective preference but of objective reality."

"We are accountable not just for our actions but for the narratives we construct."

"Bad faith is the lie we tell ourselves to escape the discomfort of freedom."

"Bad faith involves pretending we don't have choices when in fact we always do."

"To deny responsibility is to engage in self-deception; we always choose, even when we claim we don't."

"Truth is not a correspondence between thought and things, but a disclosure of being."

"Perception reveals that the world has a structure independent of our thoughts about it."

"A posteriori truths can be necessary"

"Identity is necessity itself"

"Skepticism about meaning is the deepest philosophical problem"

"Necessity and contingency carve reality at its joints"

"Convention plays a role in language, but it is not the whole story"

"Necessity is not mere stipulation or linguistic convention"

"The world itself, not our concepts, determines essential properties"

"Properties that are essential are so necessarily"

"Vagueness in language does not entail vagueness in the world"

"The truth conditions of a sentence depend on facts about the world"

"The essential property is what cannot be otherwise without the object ceasing to be"

"Identity is not created by our descriptions; it is discovered"

"We must take seriously the appearance that necessity is mind-independent"

"The law of non-contradiction is not an explanation of anything; it is part of our conceptual scheme."

"What cannot in principle be observed cannot significantly be said to exist."

"What cannot be tested cannot be meaningfully asserted."

"The truth of a statement is relative to a system of concepts."

"What one person calls a fact another might call an interpretation."

"The search for truth is inseparable from the construction of theories."

"Coherence is the primary test of truth within a system of beliefs."

"Scientific truth is provisional truth, always open to revision by experience."

"The confession has become a primary mechanism through which individuals are made to speak the truth about themselves."