Truth
“Satya”
idea · 18 works · 29 mentions · 54 anchored passages
truth · satya · alêthês · alêtheia · Satya · aletheia · the truth · Rāma's valor lies in truth · a pledge once given · alethes
spoken of as
5 expressionsSatya“Fidelity to a Pledge”4 mentions
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa (Sanskrit) · Vratisasana (Kawi)
"Having pledged, I am not able, while living, to act otherwise than my promise to the sages — truth is ever dear to me.
Alethes“truth”3 mentions
Odyssey (Greek) · Iliad (Greek)
Tell me, therefore, Nestor, and tell me true [ alêthês];
Alêtheia“truth”3 mentions
Odyssey (Greek)
"I will tell you the truth [ alêtheia], my son," answered Eurykleia.
Truth / oath-keeping“satya”1 mention
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa (Sanskrit)
"Know this to be the truth of my word, O Rāghava;
Truthfulness and keeping one's word“satya”1 mention
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa (Sanskrit)
That hero, true to his pledges, at the word of his aged father, went forth with his wife and his brother into the forest.
in the texts
Odyssey
The concept of truth, marked explicitly as Eurykleia introduces her report on the household women.
"I will tell you the truth [ alêtheia], my son," answered Eurykleia.
Now, therefore, though it has pained me to do so, I have told you the whole truth [ alêtheia].
"I will tell you the truth [ alêtheia], my son," replied Odysseus.
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
Truthfulness invoked as both an oath-formula and a constraint on what may honestly be said to the queen.
"I would not speak even a falsehood of that kind.
"There is no one on earth dearer to me than Rāma — I speak this truth, and by truth itself I swear it to you.
That hero, true to his pledges, at the word of his aged father, went forth with his wife and his brother into the forest.
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Truth (Satya), named as a foundational cosmic power sustaining Earth and the Pillar, and as the object of purification from falsehood.
In which limb is his truth firmly founded?
she in whom the gods discovered the untruth;
Truth, the vast, cosmic order fierce, consecration, austerity, sacred knowledge, and sacrifice — these uphold the Earth.
Stromata
Truth, the object pursued through both philosophy and revelation, ultimately identified with Christ.
As the man eager for the hunt finds his quarry by seeking, searching, tracking, and coursing with hounds, so the truth, when sought and won by toil, appears full of sweetness.
We say, then, plainly in bare speech, that philosophy has its quest concerning truth and the nature of the things that are (and this is the truth concerning which the Lord himself said, "I am the truth");
Indeed, the joining of doctrines through their comparison woos the truth, by which knowledge has followed — philosophy having entered not as the primary cause, but our taking, through the fruit that comes from knowledge, a firm conviction of true apprehension by the science of things that are inferred.
Iliad
Truth or trueness, explicitly named in the simile of a woman weighing wool so that the scales be true.
and as some honest hard-working woman weighs wool in her balance and sees that the scales be true [ alêthês], for she would gain some pitiful earnings for her little ones, even so was the fight balanced evenly between them till the time came when Zeus gave the greater glory to Hektor son of Priam, who was first to spring towards the wall of the Achaeans.
Meditations
Truth personified as a goddess identical with the Nature of the Whole, against whom lying is impious.
Moreover, she is named Truth, and is the first cause of all that is true.
Cratylus
The word for truth, which Socrates derives from a phrase meaning divine wandering, connected to the constant motion of the universe.
Socrates.
Hermogenes.
And ἀλήθεια (truth) is like the others;
Philebus
One of the three qualities, alongside beauty and proportion, identified as the cause of the good; tested to determine whether pleasure or mind is more closely akin to it.
take it and look at the three—mind, truth, and pleasure;
We said that truth also was mingled with them in the compound.
Then if we cannot catch the good with the aid of one idea, let us run it down with three—beauty, proportion, and truth, and let us say that these, considered as one, may more properly than all other components of the mixture be regarded as the cause, and that through the goodness of these the mixture itself has been made good.
Republic
The value of truthfulness and the pursuit of what is real, treated as the defining virtue of the philosophic soul.
The leader of the choir for him, if you recollect, was truth.
The spirit of truthfulness, reluctance to admit falsehood in any form, the hatred of it and the love of truth.
Rigveda
The concept of truth invoked both skeptically toward Indra and affirmatively toward Agni.
Bring forth your laud, eager for the prize, to Indra the true — if truth there be;
Sing forth to the most bounteous one, the upholder of truth, the great, the bright-flaming — you who stand in praise before Agni.
Apologeticum
Personified concept of truth that asks only to be heard before condemnation.
Will its power glory the more in this, that it condemns truth even after hearing it?
Truth makes no appeal on its own behalf, for it does not wonder at its own condition.
But since, when our truth meets every charge, the authority of the laws is at last set up against it — so that either it is said that nothing can be reconsidered once the laws have spoken, or the necessity of obedience is, however reluctantly, preferred to truth — I will first join issue with you about the laws, as with the guardians of the laws.
De Virginibus Velandis
The governing standard of doctrine and conduct, opposed to mere custom
But our Lord Christ named Himself truth, not custom.
Truth was content to make a pact with custom, so that, silently, under the name of custom, it might enjoy itself even in part.
Āṅgirasa Smṛti
The cosmic and ethical principle underlying confession; truth is what purifies the confessing sinner.
The king shines by truth;
Men who desire purification are purified by truth alone.
If you speak the truth, you will surely attain happiness.
Nāradasmṛti
Truthfulness, exalted as the highest virtue and cosmic principle, especially in the context of testimony.
Truth is the soul of man;
In short, truth is the gods;
The earth is supported by truth;
Slokantara
Truthfulness, held up as the supreme value surpassing wealth, sacrifice, and even offspring.
None is more excellent than truth.
There are five falsehoods that do not result in sin.
Furthermore, a person who has one hundred sons is surpassed by truth.
Vīramitrodaya
The virtue of truthfulness, asserted as the foundation of dharma and posed as a challenge to yuga-relativism.
> Practice *dharma*, speak the truth.
> There is no *dharma* higher than truth, no sin greater than falsehood.
Viṣṇu Smṛti
The cosmic principle that sustains the natural and divine order, invoked to underscore the gravity of true testimony
By truth is fire.
By truth are the gods.
By truth the sun shines.
Vratisasana
The vow of truthfulness in thought, speech, action, and vows, elaborated with rules against harsh, false, or cursing speech.
[VS_29j§6] *Satyaṁ*, you must be true:
[VS_appendix-04j§9] Now, as for *satya*, the *viku* must be true in speech.
* (unidentified)—these are not to be eaten by one of the *Siddhānta* school.