Truth Quotes

What is truth? These quotes explore honesty, reality, and the courage it takes to face both.

40912 quotes

K
"The necessity of identity cannot be reduced to linguistic necessity."
Kripke, Saul
A
"What cannot be verified is not meaningful."
Ayer, Alfred Jules
A
"The pursuit of truth requires the elimination of metaphysical speculation."
Ayer, Alfred Jules
A
"Truth is not objective but constructed through verification methods."
Ayer, Alfred Jules
Q
"Nothing is so fundamental as the notion of meaning itself."
Quine, Willard Van Orman
Q
"No statement is immune to revision in light of experience."
Quine, Willard Van Orman
Q
"What is not observed may be fundamentally unobservable."
Quine, Willard Van Orman
Q
"Truth conditions are relative to our system of beliefs and linguistic conventions."
Quine, Willard Van Orman
Q
"The criterion of truth is not correspondence to reality but coherence with our experience."
Quine, Willard Van Orman
Q
"The true and the good are not fixed by some eternal realm but emerge from our practices."
Quine, Willard Van Orman
C
"The criterion of the meaningfulness of a statement lies in the possibility of its verification."
Carnap, Rudolf
C
"Truth is not found in grand systems but in clear thinking."
Carnap, Rudolf
C
"Meaningfulness requires the possibility of verification through experience."
Carnap, Rudolf
C
"The verification of a statement determines its cognitive significance."
Carnap, Rudolf
C
"We must distinguish between logical truths and empirical facts."
Carnap, Rudolf
C
"Meaningful discourse requires adherence to logical principles."
Carnap, Rudolf
C
"The verification criterion separates sense from nonsense."
Carnap, Rudolf
C
"Truth must be grounded in empirical verification."
Carnap, Rudolf
C
"Meaningful statements are those that can be tested against experience."
Carnap, Rudolf
C
"Truth is discovered through careful analysis and systematic inquiry."
Carnap, Rudolf
C
"The verification of claims is essential to the pursuit of truth."
Carnap, Rudolf
C
"Truth emerges from the careful application of logical principles to empirical facts."
Carnap, Rudolf
K
"Rigid designators pin things down across possible worlds."
Kripke, Saul
K
"The mind has windows, but also walls we rarely acknowledge."
Kripke, Saul
K
"Modal realism is not mysticism - it is clarity about possibility."
Kripke, Saul
K
"Necessity and possibility are not mere subjective conditions."
Kripke, Saul
K
"The identity of indiscernibles fails in modal space."
Kripke, Saul
K
"Rigid designation is the thread connecting us to reality."
Kripke, Saul
K
"The baptism of names establishes their reference, not their meaning."
Kripke, Saul
K
"The philosophical zombie argument assumes too much about consciousness."
Kripke, Saul