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Websters´s Quotation Dictionary (1998)

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
Alfred Adler

Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again;
The´ eternal years of God are hers;
But Error, wounded, writhes in pain,
And dies among his worshippers.
William Cullen Bryant

With a man, a lie is a last resort; with women, it´s First Aid.
Frank Burgess

Hell is truth seen too late – duty neglected in its season.
Attributed to Tryon Edwards

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together not only our Movement but civilization itself. That bond, though strained, is unbroken at home and abroad.
Gerald R Ford

Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time.
Aulus Gellius

… For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it might cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.
Patrick Henry

… the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.
Hussein, King of Jordan

The most violent revolutions in an indivoidual´s beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and one´s own biography remain untouched. New truth is always a go-between, a smoother-over of transitions. It marries old opinion to new fact so as ever to show a minimum of jolt, a maximum of continuity.
William James

The time has come when those sentiments should be uttered and if it is decreed that I should go down linked with the truth – let me die in advocacy of what is just and right.
Abraham Lincoln

You´ll never get mixed up if you simply telkl the truth. Then you don´t have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.
Representative Sam Rayborn
(7843, Webster´s Pocket Quotation Dictionary, Trident Press Int., 1998 – Slovenia.)

Paul Ricœur (1980)

Ce qui m´a souvent étonné chez Heidegger, c´est qu´il ait, semble-t-il, systématiquement éludé la confrontation avec le bloc de la pensée hébraïque. Il lui est parfoi arrivé de penser à partir de l´Evangile et de la théologie chrétienne; mais toujours en évitant le massif hébraïque, qui est l´étranger absolu par rapport au discours grec, il évite la pensée éthique avec ses dimensions de relation à l´autre et à la justice, dont a tant parlé Levinas. Il traite la pensée éthique très sommairement comme pensée de valeur, telle que la pensée néo-kantienne l´avait présentée, et ne reconnaît pas sa différence radicale avec la pensée ontologique. Cette méconnaissance me semble parallèle à l´incapacité de Heidegger de fair le „pas en arrière“ d´une manière qui pourrai permettre de penser adéquatement toutes les dimensions de la tradition occidentale. La tâche de repenser la tradition chrétienne par un „pas en arrière“ a´exige-t-elle pas qu´on reconnaisse la dimension radicalement hébraïque du christianisme, qui est d´abord enraciné dans le judaïsme et seulement après dans la tradition grecque? Pourquoi réfléchir seulement sur Hölderlin et non pas sur les Psaumes, sur Jérémie? C´est là ma question. (Note introductive, in: 5349, Heidegger et la question de Dieu, Paris 1980, p. 17.)