Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
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