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