Truth is always in harmony with herself and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
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.
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep the truth is that they are not even shallow.
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.
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
Not when truth is dirty but when it is shallow does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?
A liar will not be believed even when he speaks the truth.
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
When virtue is lost benevolence appears when benevolence is lost right conduct appears when right conduct is lost expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth it is the beginning of disorder.
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
The object of the superior man is truth.
One may sometimes tell a lie but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.