The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual.

I hope that you will always speak the truth boldly, saying what needs to be said no matter whom you're addressing. When it comes to championing a just cause, you must never be cowardly, never fawn, never try to curry favor.

Religions all have different names, but they all contain the same truths. … I think the people of our religion should be tolerant and understand people believe different things.

Socrates is our friend, and Plato is our friend; but the truth is even more our friend.

There is no original truth, only original error.

Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.

Ruth Etting — Ruth

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Marvi Sirmed

The truth is at the beginning of anything and its end are alike touching.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Socrates’ way of life is the consequence of his recognition that we can know what it is that we do not know about the most important things and that we are by nature obliged to seek that knowledge.

We of Es Toch tell a little myth, which says that in the beginning the Creator told a great lie. For there was nothing at all, but the Creator spoke, saying, It exists. And behold, in order that the lie of God might be God’s truth, the universe at once began to exist.

When the remedy you have offered only increases the disease, then leave him who will not be cured, and tell your story to someone who seeks the truth.

I’m starting to understand how little purchase the truth actually affords us in this world.

I love you and, because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.