
Truth
Truth is that which never changes!
Truth is not a particular state of circumstances,
like 2 + 2 = 4, that’s the realm of law, conditioning.
Truth is higher than man’s ideas of right and wrong.
I am the way, and the truth, and the life.
What in you does not change, is not subject to moods or circumstances?
The ‘sense’ of being, the intuition ‘I am alive’ points to the ground of being, the truth, the presence of God.
For the personal mind this is foolishness.
Truth
| Thinker | Quote | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Socrates | “I neither know nor think that I know.” | Plato, Apology 21d (tr. Jowett) |
| Aristotle | “To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true.” | Metaphysics IV.7, 1011b (tr. Ross) |
| Arthur Schopenhauer | “To truth only a brief celebration of victory is allowed between the two long periods during which it is condemned as paradoxical, or disparaged as trivial.” | The World as Will and Representation, Preface to the 1st edition (1818) |
| Søren Kierkegaard | “Truth is subjectivity.” | Concluding Unscientific Postscript (1846) |
| Leo Tolstoy | “The hero of my tale – whom I love with all the power of my soul … – is Truth.” | Sevastopol in May (1855) |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | “No, facts are precisely what there is not, only interpretations.” | Notebooks, 1886–87 (The Will to Power §481) |
| Bertrand Russell | “A belief is true when there is a corresponding fact, and is false when there is no corresponding fact.” | The Problems of Philosophy, ch. 12 (1912) |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein | “The world is everything that is the case.” | Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 1 (1921) |
| Albert Einstein | “Truth is what stands the test of experience.” | Out of My Later Years (1950) |
| Michel Foucault | “Truth is a thing of this world: it is produced only by virtue of multiple forms of constraint.” | “Truth and Power,” in Power/Knowledge (1980) |
Table Source: Discussion with Claude.ai

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