Quotes About Philosophy

According to Gnostic teaching, the world is a mixture of the seeds of light and of darkness. Though it is impossible to distinguish between them now, in the fullness of time they will separate naturally, as ordained.

Gnosticism has always been difficult to define, largely because it is a system of thought based upon and frequently amended by experiences of nonordinary states of consciousness, and thus it is resistant to theological rigidity.

People will do whatever they can to keep their illusions intact," he said. "Then they justify it with a philosophy.

I see reverence and doubt not as ends of a seesaw but more like spaces on a coil that rotates in continuum.

There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact.

Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.

If knowing the truth is sufficient for you, then practice the art of philosophy. If only living the truth will suffice, then practice the art of love through your mind, your emotions, and your body.

It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.

Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind, and therefore independence of all social, political or religious prejudice... It loves one thing only... truth.

It seems to me that any ideology is bad because it is inevitably reductive and identifies other ideologies as evil, and itself with truth, whereas both truth and goodness are always transcendent.

Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

Truth [is] what is better for us to believe.

The color of truth is gray.

There are many levels of truth.

All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.

What are numbers? What is the nature of arithmetical truth?

Being happy or unhappy - is that really the most important thing? Knowing the truth would be a different kind of happiness - a more satisfying kind, I think, even if it turned out to be a sad kind.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell.