The Will To Truth Quotes

An outree explanation, violating all our preconceptions, would never pass for a true account of a novelty. We should scratch round industriously till we found something less excentric.

You are going to die like a dog for no good reason

A charm invests a faceImperfectly beheld, —The lady dare not lift her veilFor fear it be dispelled.But peers beyond her mesh, And wishes, and denies, —Lest interview annul a wantThat image satisfies.

Este incredibil cât de completă este iluzia care ne face să credem că frumuseţea este în genere bunătate.

A divided kingdom cannot defend itself from its adversaries. A divided person cannot face life in a dignified way.

LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY!True anyhow no matter how manyLiars use those words.

Well, the way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. When the verities become acrobats, we can judge them.

...inability to lie is still far from being love to truth. Be on your guard! ... He who cannot lie, doth not know what truth is.

Einer hat immer Unrecht: aber mit zweien beginnt die Wahrheit. Einer kann sich nicht beweisen: aber zweie kann man bereits nicht widerlegen.

Some conjurers say that number three is the magic number, and some say number seven. It's neither my friend, neither. It's number one. (Fagin)

Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right and a perfect contentment.

Falsity consists in the privation of knowledge, which inadequate, fragmentary, or confused ideas involve.

If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics.

No God, no messiah, no prophet can grant your wishes – it is only through your own efforts that you can make your wishes come true – it is only you who can grant your own wishes.

Stop being the sheep and become the lion my friend!

With the rise of self- awareness, all separatisms cease to exist - all delusions cease to exist.

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially.

It is finished.

If you are going to hide yourself and you will not stand against the work of the bad people, you have given them an endorsement.

Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself

Rationality attracts conscientious humans, whereas mysticism attracts fools.

If all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.

Men work together, ' I told him from the heart, 'Whether they work together or apart.

A successful marriage was a balancing act-that was a thing everyone knew. A successful marriage was also dependent on a high tolerance for irritation.

He who has a true idea simultaneously knows that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth of the thing perceived.

This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A or non-A, entity or zero.

Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification.

To exist is to be something, as distinguished from the nothing of non-existence, it is to be an entity of a specific nature made of specific attributes.

You can plan on a change in the weather and time, but I never planned on you changing you mind.

I'll quote the truth wherever I find it, thank you.

...[S]ome of the opinions which people entertain should be respected, and others should not.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances."— Aristotle

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.

There is nothing more real than light.

Life is not fair, get used to it

We do not claim that the portrait we are making is the whole truth, only that it is a resemblance.

Truth in her dress finds facts too tight. In fiction she moves with ease.

Now, then, that is the tale. Some of it is true.

...I hope that simple love and truth will be strong in the end. I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.

Face the facts squarely. Ask yourself definite questions and demand direct replies.

Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up them.

Athena always lived between two worlds: what she felt was true and what she as been taught by her faith.

You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe until the event. Until it's too late. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility.

A word in earnest is as good as a speech

What stays with you longest and deepest? Of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?

Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait 'til the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.

I have seen the light in the wilderness and I must follow it.

CIf you are honest, truthful, and transparent, people trust you. If people trust you, you have no grounds for fear, suspicion or jealousy.

If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men.