Truth Quotes

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

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"Truth emerges only through negation of what falsely claims to be necessary."
Herbert Marcuse
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"Authenticity is increasingly rare in a world of managed appearances."
Herbert Marcuse
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"The most banal triviality towers over the highest truths."
Martin Heidegger
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"The woods are dark and deep, much like truth itself."
Martin Heidegger
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"Being shows itself through concealment."
Martin Heidegger
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"Truth requires the courage to stand alone."
Martin Heidegger
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"The thing itself hides in plain sight."
Martin Heidegger
"In silence, there is more truth than in all the speeches ever uttered."
Walter Benjamin
"We must learn to see the world as it truly is, not as our prejudices present it to us."
Edmund Husserl
"Truth demands a complete transformation of how we ordinarily think about things."
Edmund Husserl
"The greatest illusion is that we ever had a perspective outside consciousness."
Edmund Husserl
"There is no view without a point of view."
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
"The real has to be treated as mystery that is revealed."
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
"Meaning is not in things themselves but in our engagement with them."
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
"We are always in a situation; there is no view from nowhere."
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
"Being hidden and being revealed are complementary aspects of truth."
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
"Truth emerges through dialogue and mutual recognition."
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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"Questions of existence are questions of meaning"
Willard Van Orman Quine
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"The pursuit of truth is endless"
Willard Van Orman Quine
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"Truth conditions determine meaning"
Willard Van Orman Quine
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"Vagueness has no place in serious discourse"
Willard Van Orman Quine
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"Ambiguity clouds philosophical understanding"
Willard Van Orman Quine
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"Relations are as real as objects"
Willard Van Orman Quine
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"Necessity and contingency divide our knowledge"
Willard Van Orman Quine
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"Truth is not subjective or relative"
Willard Van Orman Quine
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"Empirical evidence is ultimately decisive"
Willard Van Orman Quine
"Authenticity is not a given but an achievement requiring constant struggle."
Georg Lukács
"The path to truth requires us to abandon comfortable illusions."
Georg Lukács
"Our capacity for self-deception is proportional to our investment in the status quo."
Georg Lukács
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"The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality ought to be."
Alfred North Whitehead