Truth
The agreement of thought or speech with what is, and the ways of reaching it.
Works to read
- The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde, 1888
- Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James, 1907 · Great Books
- Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë, 1847
- On the Choice of Books by Thomas Carlyle, 1866
- Theaetetus by Plato, c. 369 BC · Great Books
- Sophist by Plato, c. 360 BC · Great Books
- Statesman by Plato, c. 360 BC · Great Books
- Philebus by Plato, c. 350 BC · Great Books
- On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Topics and Sophistical Refutations by Aristotle, c. 350 BC · Great Books
- Elements, Books I-VI by Euclid, c. 300 BC · Great Books
- On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres by Nicolaus Copernicus, 1543 · Great Books
- New Astronomy and The Harmony of the World by Johannes Kepler, 1609-1619 · Great Books
Passages
SUPPOSING that Truth is a woman--what then
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
The good I stand on is my truth and honesty
— William Shakespeare, Henry VIII
She was grateful to death, which restored the truth.
— D. H. Lawrence, The Prussian Officer and Other Stories
Truth HAPPENS to an idea. It BECOMES true, is MADE true by events.
— William James, Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
violence cannot weaken truth, and only serve to give it fresh vigor
— Blaise Pascal, The Provincial Letters
Well, and there, my friends, you have the truth! But are you satisfied?
— Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays
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