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Quotes About Philosophy

The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.
~ Muhammad Iqbal
Don't confuse meaning with truth.
~ Thucydides
Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves.
~ Antonio Machado
No hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me; no stifling dogma shall encramp my pen!
~ Anton Szandor LaVey
All philosophers can do is to abstain from helping the aggressors and to enjoin social scientists to tell the truth instead of joining the choir of liars and hypocrites.
~ Mario Bunge
Some will tell you that there are multiple worldviews. The Bible says we have only 2: the Truth and the Lie.
~ Mark Driscoll
Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.
~ Calvin S. Hall
All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final number.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
~ Henri Poincare
Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.
~ Agatha Christie
Geometry draws the soul towards truth.
~ Plato
Reality, truth, and Jesus Christ are incredibly open-ended
~ Brennan Manning
We know nothing in reality; for truth lies in an abyss.
~ Democritus
Truth, like beauty, is neither created nor lost.
~ Nicanor Parra
The greater part of mankind may be divided into two classes; that of shallow thinkers who fall short of the truth; and that of abstruse thinkers who go beyond it.
~ David Hume
The secret of theory is that truth does not exist.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
~ Cesare Pavese
The philosopher should be a man willing to listen to every suggestion,but determined to judge for himself.He should not be a respector of persons,but of things.Truth should be his primary object.
~ Michael Faraday
Modern science kills God and takes his place on the vacant throne. Science is the sole legitimate arbiter of all relavent truth.
~ Vaclav Havel
Philosophy starts with doubt and loves only truth.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
A man who examines each subject from a philosophical standpoint cannot neglect them: he has to omit nothing, and state the truth about each topic.
~ Aristotle
Would that I could discover truth as easily as I can uncover falsehood.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
~ Blaise Pascal