Truth

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth 24 times per second.

Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught falsehoods in school. And the person that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool

it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

Every communist has a fascist frown, every fascist a communist smile.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions — they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force.

Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false.

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of this world, all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try' to be “consistent.”

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep the real and the true.

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

Truth is a flower in whose neighbourhood others must wither.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie: A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby. 2

Most of the change we think we see in life Is due to truths being in and out of favor.

‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty,’—that is all

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.