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

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

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

The intrinsic truth of every individual is the new unit of unique individuality which emanates from the fusion of the parent nuclei.

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

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

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)