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Quotes About Philosophy

Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth.
~ John Paul II
Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
~ F. H. Bradley
Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.
~ Iris Murdoch
Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
What is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, that climb up into the real world which we shall call true philosophy.
~ Plato
Personally, I don't give a rap for documents; for the truth in my eyes is not in them but in the mind.
~ Luigi Pirandello
The only "definitive truth" for Buddhism is the absolute negation of any one truth as the Definitive Truth.
~ Dalai Lama
Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning.
~ Frances Wright
Truth - An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Truth is always a delusion.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
According to convention there is a sweet and a bitter, a hot and a cold, and according to convention, there is an order. In truth, there are atoms and a void.
~ Democritus
The postmodern worldview denies that there is such a thing as truth: historical, moral, or otherwise. It denies that truth exists independently of our perspectives and interests.
~ Mark Earley
If I were asked to define the Hindu creed, I should simply say: search after Truth through non-violent means. Hinduism is a relentless pursuit after truth.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
On cannot be precise, and still be true.
~ Marc Chagall
Of all that writ, he was the wisest bard, who spoke this mighty truth- He that knew all that ever learning writ, Knew only this-that he knew nothing yet.
~ Aphra Behn
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.
~ Albert Einstein
As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'
~ Richard Whately
There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.
~ Ramana Maharshi
It is not man who pursues truth, but truth man.
~ Lev Shestov
How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth is not a virtue, but a passion. It is never charitable.
~ Albert Camus
Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth, Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free.
~ Robert Frost
The truth can be spoken only by someone who is already at home in it; not by someone who still lives in untruthfulness, and does no more than reach out towards it from within untruthfulness.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?
~ Friedrich Nietzsche