Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak arid desert.
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.
Say not 'I have found the truth ' but rather 'I have found a truth.'
Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
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.
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts foreign ideas alien philosophies and competitive values. For 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.
Truth stands even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But it's usually too battered with rules to be heard and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.