We go on a lot in this country about offences being caused by drugs. The truth is just as many offences are caused by drink. And that should be taken into account.

It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.

The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.

For two years living in a neutral country I have been able to see through the haze of propaganda to reach something which my conscience tells me is the truth.

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

The Spirit is Love expressed towards man as redeeming love, and the Spirit is truth, and the Spirit is the Holy Spirit. Redemption is inconceivable without truth and holiness.