Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
Art is with us in order that we may not perish through truth.[Wir haben die Kunst, damit wir nicht an der Wahrheit zugrunde gehen.]
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand.[El arte es una mentira que nos hace comprender la verdad: por lo menos, la verdad que nos es dado comprender.]
Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as an honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.
After all – I suppose fiction is founded on the truth. I mean unless things did happen, people couldn’t think of them.
A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.
A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
A man is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.
