J. L. Austin Quotes

Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.

As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.

The Gay Science, section 108

No, that’s journalism. The truth is whatever you can’t escape.

Truth is one species of good, and not, as is usually supposed, a category distinct from good, and co-ordinate with it

The only freedom is freedom from illusion.

To accept some idea of truth without experiencing it is like a painting of a cake on paper which you cannot eat.

Our greatest illusion is disillusion. We imagine that we are disillusioned with life, when the truth is that we have not even begun to live.

The truth is the truth. What changes is what we know about it and what we're willing to believe.

The truth is always greater than the words we use to describe it.

Truth is not always injured by fiction.

Truth is an all-freeing mechanism.

Supposing truth is a woman -- what then?

The truth is not so good a story.

Knowledge, or more expressively truth,--for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence,--truth is an ideal whole.

The truth is generally seen, rarely heard.

Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.

We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.

If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.

Truth is no rounder than a horse's eye.

The reality is the picture, it is most certainly not in the picture.

The truth is rarely as dreadful or as terrifying as what one imagines.