Truth Quotes

If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.

The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.

To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them.

This is the truth: I’m into sales. I love deals. I’m definitely a sucker for steals.

We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.