To love truth for truth’s sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.
To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.[Einen von der Wahrheit zu überzeugen, genügt es nicht, die Wahrheit zu konstatieren, sondern man muß den Weg vom Irrtum zur Wahrheit finden.]
They say: “In the long run truth will triumph;” but it is untrue.[Говорят: в конце концов правда восторжествует, но это неправда.]
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.
The very fact that religions are not content to stand on their own feet, but insist on crippling or warping the flexible minds of children in their favour, forms a sufficient proof that there is no truth in them. If there were any truth in religion, it would be even more acceptable to a mature mind than to an infant mind—yet no mature mind ever accepts religion unless it has been crippled in infancy.
The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
The truth is sometimes a poor competitor in the market place of ideas – complicated, unsatisfying, full of dilemmas, always vulnerable to misinterpretation and abuse.
The truth is something which cannot be told in a few words, and those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.
The truth is a snare: you cannot get it without being caught yourself; you cannot get the truth by catching it yourself but only by its catching you.
