The Will To Truth Quotes
The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for the living complexities of reality.
Art can be a medium for people to discover universal spirit, with imagery not isolated to one particular wisdom path, but pointing to the underlying truth that they all transmit.
Doubt is faith in the main: but faith, on the whole, is doubt; We cannot believe by proof: but could we believe without?
Secrets are kept from children, a lid on top of the soup kettle, so they do not boil over with too much truth.
The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb; it repulses.
Carlyle uttered a pregnant truth when he said that the history of any country is in the biographies of the men who made it.
In truth, a leader should either apologize, mean it and do something about it - or not apologize at all.
Jesus did not come to strike a balance between grace and truth. He brought the full measure of both.
Most of us wake up every day and make decision that will make us happy, and generally decisions that will make us happy right then in the moment or that day. We are not really on a truth quest.
Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge.
When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wander a little from the truth.
No people in the world other than the English would have had the courage, in the midst of war, to tell the people such unvarnished truth.
It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.
When you have eliminated the impossible, what is left, no matter how unlikely, is the truth.
There's no division on my bookshelf between fiction and nonfiction. As far as I'm concerned, fiction is about the truth.
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man's life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
This illustrates an important truth, namely, that the worse your logic, the more interesting the consequences to which it gives rise.
If you say to people that there's less violence today than in the past, they would be stunned to hear that. But it's the truth, even though we have awful things happening in Syria or Sudan.
From here on out, I am only interested in what is real. Real people, real feelings, that's it. That's all I'm interested in.
We see neither justice nor injustice which does not change its nature with change in climate. Three degrees of latitude reverse all jurisprudence; a meridian decides the truth.
The spirit of truth will do more to bring persons to light and knowledge, than flowery words.
All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them.
Look to the Classics, History, to the Arts, for there is truth. Look away from the systems, the processes, the techniques.
May be the truth is, that one pipe is wholesome, two pipes toothsome, three pipes noisome, four pipes fulsome, five pipes quarrelsome; and that's the some on't.
Boldness in the course of a noble fight is worth the risk... If you stand on truth, you'll only regret your timidity later, but you'll never regret being bold.