Quotes About Philosophy

The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence.

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Truth is error burned up.

There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil.

The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth.

All these ideas such as astrology, although there may be a grain of truth in them, should be avoided.

Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

There is a certain way of searching for the truth in mathematics that Plato is said first to have discovered. Theon called this analysis.

It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.

Truth and nonviolence are as old as the hills.

The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.

The only atheism is the denial of truth.

Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.

There can be no absolute reality, there can be no absolute truth.

...logical validity is not a guarantee of truth.

Truth is merely common sense, say the naive realist. Really? Then where, precisely, is the location of--a rainbow? In the air? In the eye? In between? Or somewhere else?

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

The sacred exists only at the expense of the truth.

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.

Thus each truth discovered was a rule available in the discovery of subsequent ones.