Truth Quotes - Page 102

Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is.

They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom

Many are the places of worship, but few indeed are those who worship in Spirit and in truth.

There can be no absolute reality, there can be no absolute truth.

Hegel understood the Heisenbergian reality of knowing: yes, it would be nice if we could somehow delicately capture the truth and bring it closer to ourselves without altering it, "like a bird caught with a limestick." But the reality is, every truth we manage to know is altered, deformed by our very "encheiresis naturae," by the act of our taking-in-hand of nature (to borrow the alchemists' phrase from Goethe's Faust).

But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.

Truth doesn't run on time like a commuter train.

The truth is, my experience in matters sexual is limited.

You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don't, for any reason, ever tell the truth.

Now now, Emily, it isn't nice to tell the truth.

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Hegel said that `truth` is subjective, thus rejecting the existence of any `truth` above or beyond human reason. All knowledge is human knowledge.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a brief gesture, a gesture which starts an ideal trajectory in the air along which we glide until we find ourselves at the feet of the new truth.

Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line.

Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out. It is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

I would like the church to be a place where the questions of people are honored rather than a place where we have all the answers. The church has to get out of propaganda. The future will involve us in more interfaith dialogue. ... We cannot say we have the only truth.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

The wonderful structure of the animal system will probably never permit us to look upon it as a merely physical apparatus, yet the demands of science require that the evidently magnified principles of vitality should be reduced to their natural spheres, or if truth requires, wholly subverted in favor of those more cognizable by the human understanding. The spirit of the age will not tolerate in the devotee of science a quiet indifference.

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.

Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past it, in actual terror of being burnt.

If you're going to affirm something, affirm the truth. Then go do something about it.