The Will To Truth Quotes

Error has made animals into men; is truth in a position to make men into animals again?

It is not when it is dangerous to tell the truth that its advocates are hardest to find, but when it is boring.

Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just.

[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.

The reasons for which 'this' world has been characterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate its reality; any other kind of reality is absolutely indemonstrable.

It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst any more?

Each word of Heraclitus expresses the pride and the majesty of truth, but of truth grasped in intuitions rather than attained by the rope ladder of logic.

Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise will you seek truth during the night, and your soul will have been hungry.

Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.

Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive.

The mouth may lie, alright, but the face it makes nonetheless tells the truth.

It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the truth at all.

It is only through the morning gate of the beautiful that you can penetrate into the realm of knowledge. That which we feel here as beauty we shall one day know as truth.

Courage, ne'er by sorrow broken! Aid where tears of virtue flow; Faith to keep each promise spoken! Truth alike to friend and foe!

We are oftener deceived by being told some truth than no truth.

But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close his eyes and ears, but justify his logic at all cost.

If someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth, and that in reality the truth were outside of Christ, then I should prefer to remain with Christ rather than with the truth.

I go to spread the tidings, I want to spread the tidings of what? Of the truth , for I have seen it, have seen it with my own eyes , have seen it in all its glory .

Of course I shall go astray often...for who does not make mistakes? But I cannot go far wrong for I have seen the truth.

I don't think we're living in great times for movies, to tell you the truth.

Jealousy knows more than truth does.

The truth was that I could not manage my soul, and I was becoming aware of old age because of my weakness in the face of love.

The truth is, sometimes too much can happen in a relationship, and then there's nothing anyone can do or say. It's broken.

The truth, or success, of any writer's story lies partly in its specificity and its emotional honesty.

The truth is there's so many great TV shows out there now that none of us take absence of awards personally. The most important feedback is the feedback we get from the fans.

It was granted to me alone to discover all the new phenomena in the sky and nothing to anybody else. This is the truth which neither envy nor malice can supress.

Truth refuses to be subservient to either politics or the market.

There are numerous layers to truth, and the simple and superficial statement of facts cannot satisfy the writer.

Literature is subservient to nothing but truth.

Dogs don't lie and why should I? Strangers come they growl and bark, they know their loved ones in the dark, Now let me, by night or day, Be just as full of truth as they.

I do think that calling a book nonfiction affirms a kind of responsibility to an attempt at truth.

For everyone and everything, there is a time to die. Some do not know it, or would delay it, but its truth cannot be denied. Not when you look into the stars of the ninth gate.

Truth stands for Taking Real Understanding To Heart.

Acting is the absence of acting. It's believing in the truth of the moment you are creating.

You know what ART stands for? Above Real Truth.

When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.

The truth is I don't feel too bad for my age. I actually have a better shape now than I used to.

Never by hatred is hatred appeased, but it is appeased by kindness. This is an eternal truth.

It came to me that I should teach this truth for it is real happiness and joy. The cessation of suffering is possible.

I never lie- except for the few times I do in fact lie, but it's never intentional, and i'm totally telling the truth right now" She raised her right hand "promise".

When you claim to have the truth, as opposed to the truth as you perceive it, then you move us toward a theocratic view of government.

On a deep almost preconscious level we know, not with our minds but deep in our hearts the truth of the words, love never ends.

Alas, alas, that ever love was sin! I ever followed natural inclination Under the power of my constellation And was unable to deny, in truth, My chamber of Venus to a likely youth.

If you don't have the willpower to stop eating carbs, you won't have the willpower to do a dissertation. #truth.

The appalling thing about war is that it kills all love of truth.

Propositions on which all men are in agreement are true: if they are not true we have no truth at all.

There is no truth which the prophets press more steadily upon Israel than that all their national life lies in the sight and on the care of God.

If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.

Style is the gossamer on which the seeds of truth float through the world.

All great Truth first starts as Blasphemy.