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Quotes About Philosophy

No truth appears to me more evident than that beasts are endowed with thought and reason as well as men.
~ David Hume
Death offers mankind a full view of truth.
~ Socrates
The sense of truth no matter how subjective is necessary for the experience of beauty.
~ Lawrence Durrell
Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
~ Cesare Pavese
An honest lie is better than a boring truth.
~ Marcel Wanders
Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.
~ Albert Camus
Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.
~ Frank Norris
A person obsessed with ultimate truth is a person asking to be relieved of money.
~ Robert B. Laughlin
All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.
~ Iris Murdoch
Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.
~ Bob Dylan
When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.
~ Carl Friedrich Gauss
There is no conflict between the Old and the New; the conflict is between the False and the True.
~ Henry Van Dyke
Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down".
~ Diogenes
There is no truth. Only points of view.
~ Edith Sitwell
Those who believe that... detailed rules originate in a certain cause, are as far from the truth as those who assume that the whole law is useless.
~ Maimonides
Being precedes Truth, and ... Truth precedes the Good.
~ Josef Pieper
You wonder and you wonder until you wander out into Infinity, where - if it is to be found anywhere - Truth really exists.
~ Marita Bonner
The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.
~ Socrates
There are no philosophical problems, there is only a suite of interconnected linguistic cul de sacs created by language's inability to reflect the truth.
~ Victor Pelevin
If you didn't believe in objective truth, arguments would be just toys, or games, or jokes.
~ Peter Kreeft
Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.
~ Blaise Pascal
How far is truth susceptible of embodiment? That is the question, that is the experiment.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Perhaps nothing is entirely true, not even this.
~ Multatuli
Everything passes, only truth remains.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky