intrinsic truth

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“I think finding the intrinsic truth of the piece is the important thing.”

From New York Times • Mar. 18, 2016

I must take it all, from the beginning of my career, before I can look into its intrinsic truth.

From The Bertrams by Trollope, Anthony

Man may be clearly conscious of the symbolism of the idea, and yet, at the same time, grasp in it an incontestable intrinsic truth which he knows to be far above all mere anthropomorphism.

From An Interpretation of Rudolf Eucken's Philosophy by Jones, W. Tudor (William Tudor)

Sight is lost of the intrinsic truth that Life exists for Man—not Man for Life; its purpose being the evolution of the human Species by way of the evolution of human Faculty.

From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Kenealy, Arabella

But this is rather a preliminary truth than an intrinsic truth.

From Fantasia of the Unconscious by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)