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

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

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

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.

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

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

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.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

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

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

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.

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

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.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.

People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.