The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. After all, the chances are that those lies, or at any rate similar lies, will pass into history.
The Sting of a Reproach, is the Truth of it.
Tell the children the truth.
It must be remembered that there is no real reason to expect anything in particular from mankind; good and evil are local expedients—or their lack—and not in any sense cosmic truths or laws.
In all perception of the truth there is a divine ecstasy, an inexpressible delirium of joy, as when a youth embraces his betrothed virgin.
I did my best, it wasn’t much I couldn’t feel, so I tried to touch I’ve told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you And even though it all went wrong I’ll stand before the Lord of Song With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah
Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those “truths” we once believed.
A Lie stands on 1 leg, Truth on 2.
Zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.
When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.[Wenn man sich vor der Wahrheit fürchtet, so ahnt man nie die volle Wahrheit.]
