Truth Quotes

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

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"Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself."
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
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"The world is all that is the case."
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
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"How extraordinary that the world should divide into facts, and these into atomic facts."
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
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"A tautology has no truth-conditions, because it is unconditionally true."
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
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"The totality of true thoughts is a picture of the world."
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
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"Truth can only be discovered through careful observation and reasoning."
Comte, Auguste
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"The love of truth should guide all our actions."
Comte, Auguste
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"The pursuit of truth is the noblest of all endeavors."
Comte, Auguste
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"Truth emerges from the clash of opposing views."
Spencer, Herbert
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"The phenomenological method reveals that experience itself is the foundation of all knowledge."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Genuine understanding requires that we examine not just objects, but how consciousness constitutes them."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Reality is always mediated through structures of meaning that consciousness creates."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Language both reveals and conceals the essential structures of experience."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Every perception contains within it a horizon of possible perceptions."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Subjectivity is not a limitation but the very condition of access to reality."
Husserl, Edmund
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"The phenomenological reduction is not an escape from reality but a deeper entry into it."
Husserl, Edmund
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"The notion of a pure subject observing an external world is a philosophical fiction."
Husserl, Edmund
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"The constitution of meaning is not mechanical but involves the spontaneity of consciousness."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Horizons are not fixed boundaries but dynamic structures that shift with our perspective."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Phenomenological description aims at precision and fidelity to how things actually appear."
Husserl, Edmund
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"The world is always more than what any single perspective can grasp."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Authenticity in philosophy requires acknowledging the perspectival character of all understanding."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Every claim to knowledge rests ultimately on the self-evidence of consciousness itself."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Language shapes our consciousness even as consciousness shapes language."
Husserl, Edmund
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"Consciousness, when examined rigorously, reveals itself as the source of all givenness."
Husserl, Edmund
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"The transcendental reduction liberates us from naive realism without leading to skepticism."
Husserl, Edmund
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"The real, then, is that which, sooner or later, information and reasoning would finally result in."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"The universe is perfused with signs if it is perfused with anything."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"The meaning of a sign is its practical consequence."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"Truth is that which ultimately will be believed by all rational minds."
Peirce, Charles Sanders