Truth Quotes

"There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths."

"The only unconditioned truth is the truth that creation is possible."

"The test of truth is its power of thought to endow fact with meaning."

"The struggle for freedom is inseparable from the struggle for truth."

"Rational discourse is corrupted when it serves irrational ends of power and profit."

"The distinction between appearance and reality has been deliberately obscured by ideology."

"Truth is the unconcealment of beings."

"The human essence is to know oneself as finite and mortal."

"Being shows itself by hiding itself."

"Concealment and revelation are always in tension."

"Truth is not correspondence but the happening of unconcealment."

"Being shows itself in the space between what is said and what remains unsaid."

"Perception is not a science of the world; it is the world itself."

"The world appears different to each consciousness that perceives it."

"Truth reveals itself gradually through lived experience."

"Truth is a horizon we approach but never fully reach."

"In the reduction of phenomena to their essences, we discover the bedrock of all true knowledge."

"Reality is not given to us ready-made; it is constituted through the intentional acts of consciousness."

"The life-world precedes and underlies all scientific theorizing."

"The method is nothing; the lived contact with things themselves is everything."

"Meaning is not imposed upon the world from outside but discovered within the structure of our experience."

"The appearance is not a veil hiding reality but the very means by which reality reveals itself."

"To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it 'the way it really was'."

"There are two ways of differing from your opponent: one is the way of truth, the other is the way of sophistry."

"Facts are not independent of interpretation."

"Truth is what serves our purposes."

"The pursuit of truth is endless."

"There is no fact of the matter about synonymy between expressions."

"Truth is a property we ascribe to statements within a framework, not an absolute."

"We must believe in the external world, yet we can only know it through mental mediation."