Truth Quotes

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

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"The world is everything that is the case."
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
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"One cannot be angry at a mathematical truth."
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
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"The truth can be spoken only by someone who is already at home in it."
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
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"The world is determined by facts, and by all the facts being the case, and by nothing else."
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
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"The facts in logical space are the world."
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
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"The world exists independently of what is thought about it."
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
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"There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"Reality consists in the eventual behavior of things."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"To say that a fact is real is to say that the fact is what it is regardless of what any finite mind believes."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"Truth is public. It is what would be ultimately agreed upon by an indefinite community of inquirers."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"There is a good deal of confusion about the definition of truth."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"A thing has the properties which experience has shown it to have."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"To be real is to have a dynamic effect."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"The highest grade of reality is exemplified by whatever is altogether determinate."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"Reality is something in which every man participates."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"Truth is the conformity of a representation to its object."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"To understand anything truly, we must bracket our assumptions and examine it anew."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Our perceptions are never complete; they always contain unfulfilled intentions."
Husserl, Edmund
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"The essence of an object is not hidden within it but revealed through systematic reflection."
Husserl, Edmund
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"The world reveals itself differently to different people, yet it is the same world."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Every act of meaning involves a transcendence of the immediate given."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Essences are not eternal forms but structures disclosed in experience."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Truth is not correspondence to an independent reality but coherence within experience."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Truth is what works."
James, William
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"The greatest thing a human soul ever does is to see something, and tell what it saw in plain speech."
James, William
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"The ultimate test of what a truth means is indeed the conduct it inspires."
James, William
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"The call of conscience calls us back to our ownmost possibility of being."
Heidegger, Martin
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"Truth is the unconcealment of what is, not mere agreement with statements."
Heidegger, Martin
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"Being reveals itself as hidden; concealment is part of truth itself."
Heidegger, Martin
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"Being shows itself and withdraws itself in the same movement."
Heidegger, Martin