Quotes About Philosophy

Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.

Life is but a mask worn on the face of death. And is death, then, but another mask? 'How many can say,' asks the Aztec poet, 'that there is, or is not, a truth beyond?'

The real question is: How much truth can I stand?

I don't believe in empirical science. I only believe in a priori truth.

Tagore once said - art has to be beautiful, but, before that, it has to be truthful.

Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

In truth, ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness', even supposing this term to have an unambiguous meaning. It is profoundly unconscious, even when it presents itself in a reflected form.

Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.

God wants you to understand the Word of God. The Bible is not a mystery book. It's not a book of philosophy. It's a book of truth that explains the attitude and heart of almighty God.

Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.

I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view.

We are in truth but pieces on this chess board of life, which in the end we leave, only to drop one by one into the grave of nothingness.

Though the names 'karma', 'yoga' and 'sannyasa' are different, the truth at the heart of both is the same.

The truth of Zen is the truth of life, and life means to live, to move, to act, not merely to reflect.

The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things.

There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.

Sometimes the truth is too simple for intellectuals.

Facts an' facts, an' t'ings an t'ings: dem's all a lotta fockin' bullshit. Hear me! Dere is no truth but de one truth, an' that is the truth of Jah Rastafari.

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

The higher the truth, the simpler it is.

An aphorism is never exactly true; it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths.

A deep truth is a truth so deep that not only is it true but it's exact opposite is also true.