#2,822

The onslaught of words unleashed by an unlimited freedom of expression ends up reducing errors and truths to an equal insignificance.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 452

#2,785

The lower truths tend to eclipse the highest truths.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 447

#2,689

To believe that an obvious truth, clearly expressed, should be convincing, is no more than a naïve prejudice.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 433

#2,675

To give an aged truth its freshness back, it is enough to oppose it to a new error.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 431

#2,664

The world becomes filled with contradictions when we forget that things have ranks.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 430

#2,607

We should only encourage someone to do something that is worth doing because it is worth it.
Goodness for goodness’s sake, truth for truth’s sake, art for art’s sake.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 421

#2,589

The dangerous idea is not the false one, but the partially correct one.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 419

#2,575

Truths do not contradict each other except when they fall out of order.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 417

#2,559

In ages of complete freedom, indifference to the truth grows so much that nobody makes the effort to confirm a truth or to refute it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 411

#2,492

As long as they do not take him seriously, the man who says the truth can live for a while in a democracy.
Then, the hemlock.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 401

#2,476

We must remind those who infer from the social utility of myths the social utility of lies that myths are useful thanks to the truths they express.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 398

#2,431

Nothing appears more obsolete to humanity during its drinking bouts than the truths it confesses again when it recovers its judgment.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 392

#2,416

The truth resides in the indeterminate area where opposing principles interweave and correct each other.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 390

#2,351

To accuse the aphorism of expressing only part of the truth is tantamount to supposing that a verbose discourse can express all of it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 381

#2,302

Humanity does not suppress an error without simultaneously erasing several truths.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 373

#2,251

Reason, truth, justice, tend not to be man’s goals, but the names he gives to his goals.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 365

#2,098

Even the greatest fool experiences nights during which his defenses against the truth waver.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 340

#2,059

Man speaks of the relativity of truth because he calls his innumerable errors truths.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 334

#2,010

Man goes out hunting less for truths than for ways of getting out.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 327

#2,004

The professional never admits that in the science he practices insignificant truths abound.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 326