It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
Everything evil is rooted in some good and everything false in some truth.
One can say that to some extent fascism has added a new variation to the old art of lying — the most devilish variation — that of lying the truth.
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
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