Truth Quotes

"Being shows itself only by withdrawing and concealing itself."

"Man stands in the clearing where being reveals itself."

"Genuine philosophy requires a radical return to things themselves, setting aside all prejudices."

"The phenomenological reduction is not skepticism; it is a gateway to understanding the foundations of knowledge."

"We must return to the pre-scientific experience of the world to understand what science truly studies."

"The epokhé or bracketing is not a denial of reality but a clarification of what we mean by reality."

"The appearing of things is not mere appearance; it is the very way being manifests itself to us."

"Every meaningful statement rests on a ground of unspoken assumptions that give it sense."

"Being itself is characterized by its manifestness, its capacity to appear in consciousness."

"The world's hiddenness is not a defect but essential to how meaning is disclosed to consciousness."

"The reduction of phenomena to mere representations was the original error that philosophy must overcome."

"In the absence of facts, hearsay prevails."

"Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened."

"Untruth cannot be long maintained."

"Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making."

"The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working."

"The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear."

"There is no greater ill than the acceptance of meanness and untruthfulness as inevitable."

"Every genuine inquirer must be willing to follow the evidence wherever it leads, even if it contradicts their earlier beliefs."

"Truth is not a destination but a process of continuous discovery."

"The idea that a sign can exist without an object is quite opposed to the definition of a sign."

"What is the cause of a thing's being in existence?"

"I do not think I am here to be of much influence; but I have tended to the utmost of my ability toward the truth."

"The highest ideal is not to be rich, nor to be successful in the ordinary sense of the word, but to be a lover of truth."

"The final aim of reasoning is to discover the truth."

"Truth has a certain way of asserting itself."

"We are condemned to interpret the world through the lens of our own historical moment."

"There is no view from nowhere; all understanding is situated and perspectival."

"What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence."

"The world divides into facts."