If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.

If names are not correct, language will not be in accordance with the truth of things

If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.

Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Die Wahrheit hat keinen Erfolg.