Truth Quotes

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

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"We know the world only as it appears to us through experience."
Ayer, Alfred Jules
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"Facts exist independently of what we believe about them."
Ayer, Alfred Jules
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"To the things themselves!"
Husserl, Edmund
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"We must return to the immediate experience of phenomena."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Genuine philosophy begins with radical doubt."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Truth requires evidence and rational justification."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Every judgment rests on evidence."
Husserl, Edmund
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"The natural world appears through multiple perspectives."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Truth is the adequation of meaning with intuition."
Husserl, Edmund
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"All appearances point to an underlying essence."
Husserl, Edmund
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"The clearing is the open region in which unconcealment can happen."
Heidegger, Martin
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"Truth is the unconcealment of being."
Heidegger, Martin
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"The basic character of being is to be self-concealing."
Heidegger, Martin
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"Being disclosed itself only in the light of concealment."
Heidegger, Martin
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"The essence of being is to remain partially hidden."
Heidegger, Martin
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"The clearing allows beings to show themselves."
Heidegger, Martin
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"The essence of truth is freedom."
Heidegger, Martin
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"Being conceals itself in the very act of revealing itself."
Heidegger, Martin
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"Truth is a quality of thought and belief rather than of facts."
Dewey, John
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"Truth emerges from lived experience."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"Truth is lived before it is known."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"Truth lives in the human heart."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"A meaningful statement must be either analytic, synthetic, or empirically verifiable; otherwise it is meaningless."
Carnap, Rudolf
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"Every meaningful concept must be reducible to observable phenomena or logical operations."
Carnap, Rudolf
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"We must abandon the search for absolute truth and embrace methodological inquiry."
Carnap, Rudolf
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"Meaningful discourse requires shared standards of verification and coherent definitions."
Carnap, Rudolf
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"Intellectual honesty demands that we distinguish between knowledge and mere speculation."
Carnap, Rudolf
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"Language is the medium through which we construct our picture of reality."
Carnap, Rudolf
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"True knowledge acknowledges its own limitations and the provisional nature of its claims."
Carnap, Rudolf
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"Truth is not something we discover waiting in the world; it is achieved through verification."
Carnap, Rudolf