Truth and lies

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Whatever the field under discussion, those who engage in debate must not only believe in each other's good faith, but also in their capacity to arrive at the truth.

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There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.

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Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

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Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth.

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You can't be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth.

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

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Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

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From whatever side the matter is regarded, it is always found that reason confronts our longing for personal immortality and contradicts it. And the truth is, in all strictness, that reason is the enemy of life.

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There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.

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I said the thing which was not. (For they have no word in their language to express lying or falsehood.)