Search For Truth Quotes

Science itself, no matter whether it is the search for truth or merely the need to gain control over the external world, to alleviate suffering, or to prolong life, is ultimately a matter of feeling, or rather, of desire-the desire to know or the desire to realize.

O my mighty sisters and brothers, forget not that the ideal of humanity is the search of truth. In this pursuit, countless souls have sacrificed themselves in the past. And in this pursuit, countless more shall need to sacrifice themselves.

The goal of all principled people is to recognize truth. Simple or complex thoughts and feelings standing alone rarely express any universal truths. Thoughts and feelings combine to create profound truths and compose extravagant falsities. Truth making exposes certain falsehoods, and lies shed light upon irrefutable truths. Art reveals the pageantry of nature along with the unmitigated grotesqueness that accompanies an earthly life. The search for truth begins with an intellectual journey into darkness whereas the search for beauty requires an imaginative act trussed with the classical beauty of Apollonian lightness. Aesthetic appreciation represents the perfect reconciliation of the sensual and rational parts of humankind’s animalistic nature. Similar to aesthetic experience – contemplation of beauty without imposition of a worldly agenda – love depends upon human sensory-emotional values, a judgement of values and sentiments.

Through the many years of what I thought was 'searching', was really the process of 'awakening'.

Let's always try to paint the truth ... our art must be made to mean something.

A philosopher is a lover and searcher of truth, beauty, meaning, and wisdom.

A person achieves enlightenment only through a purposeful engagement with life and by resolutely searching for truth and shedding artifices.

Well, it's not easy to find something that you do not know exists.

Isn't it strange how people are selective about the truth the want to see or hear?

Good questions are to be appreciated, not answered.

Searching for truth without skepticism, is like having sex without a genital.

So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?

The only rule is that truth must empower you, make you better in every way possible.