Truth Quotes

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.

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.

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.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

The color of truth is gray.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.