Conformity of the intellect to the things.
Happy, if we can unite the boundaries of the different species of philosophy, by reconciling profound enquiry with clearness, and truth with novelty!
Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
A society is only strong when it opens the truth up to the bright light of the sun.
Truth is the sun of intelligence.
I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.
In affairs of state the principles and the foundations must be truth and justice.
We are born to inquire after truth; it belongs to a greater power to possess it.
I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grow older.
Utopias are often just premature truths.
To devote one's life to the truth.
In wine, truth.
When in doubt, tell the truth.
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
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And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
The opposite of falsehood is not truth, but doubt.
Truth and clarity are complementary.
Truth must gain ground without violence.
The first and last thing required of genius is love of truth.
Simplicity can only exist in what is true.
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
Only truth can face injustice. Truth, or love.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
The simplest and most familiar truth seems new and wonderful the instant we ourselves experience it for the first time.
Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
Let there be truth between us.
Where there is no love there is also no truth.
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