Quotes About Philosophy

The Bible's blind, the Torah's deaf, the Qur'an is mute; if you burned them all together you'd get close to the truth.

Animistic savages prostrating themselves before a painted stone have always seemed to me to be nearer the truth than any Einstein or Bertrand Russell.

Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface.

A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.

Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers.

Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction

Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth.

The theist is persuaded that while nothing that contradicts science is likely to be true, still nothing that stops with science can be the whole truth.

Renouncing the honors at which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth... and to the maximum of power, I exhort all other men to do the same.

Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.

Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.

The superior man is anxious lest he should not get the truth; he is not anxious lest poverty should come upon him.

Truths that become old become decrepit and unreliable; sometimes they may be kept going artificially for a certain time, but there is no life in them.

The viable jewels of life remain untouched when man forgets his vocation of searching for the truth of his existence.

Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself...She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men.

I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.

And the truth of the matter is that death is a mystery to me. I have no opinion on the subject.

Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.

I believe that organized religion is an ornament to the truth, and that aesthetics are part of its power.

Eternal truth needs a human language that alters with the spirit of the times.

Anything that is said is not the truth. It is a statement of truth, and no statement is the truth.