„Art is realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. Realism is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful.“

— Andrei Tarkovsky

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„When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.“
— Roald Dahl
„Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.“
— John Ruskin
„Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.“
— Swami Vivekananda
„The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.“
— Albert Einstein
„Here the ways of men part: if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„One has a feeling that one has a kind of home in this timeless community of human beings that strive for truth. … I have always believed that Jesus meant by the Kingdom of God the small group scattered all through time of intellectually and ethically valuable people.“
— Albert Einstein
„Measured objectively, what a man can wrest from Truth by passionate striving is utterly infinitesimal. But the striving frees us from the bonds of the self and makes us comrades of those who are the best and the greatest.“
— Albert Einstein
„Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.“
— Carl Sagan