Truth

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Done by Yana EgorovaTeacher O.D. Polikarpova

Plato and AristotleIdeas of Plato and Aristotle appeal to common sense, according to them true beliefs and true statements correspond to the actual state of affairs. Aristotle: “To say of what is that it is, or of what is not that it is not, is true.”Plato Aristotle

Great people about the truth“Truth is rarely writ in ink; it lives in nature. ” Martin H. Fischer (1879 – 1962)

“All great truths begin as blasphemies.”  George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950)

“Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized.  In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.”  Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 – 1860)

Great people about the truth“Truth is the breath of life to human society.  It is the food of the immortal spirit.  Yet a single word of it may kill a man as suddenly as a drop of prussic acid.”  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 – 1894)

“I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.”  Simone de Beauvoir (1908

– 1986)

“Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage.  He lives... by make-believe.”  W. Somerset Maugham (1874 – 1965)

Famous politicians about the truth

Winston Churchill 

(1874 –1965) 

“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.”

“Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.”

“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. Ignorance may deride it. But in the end, there it is.”

Famous politicians about the truth

Otto von Bismarck(1815 – 1898)

“I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.”

Great Writers about the truth

Leo Tolstoy (1828 – 1910)

“Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.”

“There is not greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness and truth.”

Great Writers about the truth

Alexander Solzhenitsyn(1918 – 2008)

“We do not err because truth is difficult to see.  It is visible at a glance.  We err because this is more comfortable.”

“The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.”

“No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I'm ready to accept even death.”

Religious views on the truth“There is no god higher than truth.”  Mahatma Gandhi (1869 – 1948)

“God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose.  Take which you please - you can never have both.”  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)

“If anyone could prove to me that Christ is outside the truth, and if the truth really did exclude Christ, I should prefer to stay with Christ and not with truth.”

Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 – 1881)

Proverbs around the world about the truth

Time trieth truth. English proverb Truth never dies but lives a wretched life. Yiddish proverb The man who speaks the truth is always at ease. Persian

proverb

Truth has a handsome countenance but torn garments. German proverb

Seeing is believing - but feeling is God's own truth. Irish proverb

If you speak the truth have a foot in the stirrup. Turkish proverb When one has one's hand full of truth it is not always wise to

open it.  French Proverb

The Truth and Lies

"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.“

Friedrich Nietzsche

(1844 – 1900)

“Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.” Sophocles (497/6 BC – 406/5 BC)

The truth in art

Mikalojus Čiurlionis (1875 – 1911) The Truth

1905

The truth in art

Ferdinand Hodler (1853 –1918), The Truth II

The truth in art

Luc-Olivier Merson (1846 –1920), Truth

The truth in art

Jules Joseph Lefebvre

(1834-1912), Truth, 

Francois Le Moyne (1688 – 1737), Time saving truth from falsehood

and envy

The truth in art

Nikolai Ge (1831 – 1894), What is Truth?(Quod Est Veritas? Christ and Pilate)

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