Quotes About Philosophy

Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.

It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.

There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.

Conclusions from observations are unreliable, only the mind can come nearer to to the truth. Thus, in some ways, philosophy is more important than science.

To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.

He who seeks truth should be of no country.

"True" resembles... a compliment paid to sentences that seem to be paying their way and that fit in with other sentences which are doing so.

If ... it is not in my power to arrive at the knowledge of any truth, I may at least do what is in my power, namely, suspend judgement.

Love can only consist in failure...on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.

"Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed."

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

Truth is undoubtedly the sort of error that cannot be refuted because it was hardened into an unalterable form in the long baking process of history

Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.

Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true .

The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth.

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

The belief in a single truth is the root cause for all evil in the world.

There is no religion higher than Truth.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Begin with the beautiful, which leads you to the good, which leads you to the truth.

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.

Beauty is the brilliance of truth.

Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.

Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.