„If he will not be satisfied with truth in the form of tautology, that is to say, if he will not be content with empty husks, then he will always exchange truths for illusions.“

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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„He thought about that for a moment, wondered what he should say. The truth or nothing. The truth.“
— Octavia E. Butler
„A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.“
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
„He is the Ultimate Rest unbounded: He has spread His form of love throughout all the world.From that Ray which is Truth, streams of new forms are perpetually springing: and He pervades those forms.“
— Kabir
„Perhaps he d always known that the truth of a person lies in the heart.“
— Jodi Picoult
„Lessing, the most honest of theoretical men, dared to say that he took greater delight in the quest for truth than in the truth itself.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.“
— Stephen King
„He seeks order, not truth. Suppose truth defies order, will he accept it? Will you? I think not.“
— Robert A. Heinlein
„If a marker were to be erected today, it might read, in homage to his scientific courage: “He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions.”“
— Carl Sagan