Quotes About Philosophy

It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion that we shall discover truth, reason and morality.

If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.

I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion.

The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.

Philosophy is not one truth, but thousands of truths. You don't have to believe in just one thing. When you chose one idea, you close yourself to the rest.

No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even know they had done so.

The truth of the Christian faith surpasses the capacity of reason.

Justice, truth, and beauty are sisters and comrades. With three such beautiful words we have no need to look for any others.

Any useful logic must concern itself with Ideas with a fringe of vagueness and a Truth that is a matter of degree.

Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend.

I never let the facts get in the way of the truth!

Proclaim the only truth you can be totally sure of: "I don't know."

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.

To seek truth and to utter what one believes to be true can never be a crime. No one must be forced to accept a conviction. Conviction is free.

All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.

Ahimsa and Truth are so intertwined that it is practically impossible to disentangle and separate them.

It is man that makes truth great, and not truth that makes man great.

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.

Jokes? There are no jokes. The truth is the funniest joke of all.

I do not think discursively. It is not so much that I arrive at truth as that I take my start from it.