Quotes About Philosophy

True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.

I don't know what is truth,but I can tell you how to find it!

The qualities of number appear to lead to the apprehension of truth.

The world is not a wish-granting factory.

Truth happens to an idea

Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it

It seems to be my destiny to discourse on truth, insofar as I discover it, in such a way that all possible authority is simultaneously demolished.

Lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth.

All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.

Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.

If I can capture truth in its simplest form, beauty will follow like a sledgehammer.

It is useless either to hate or to love truth - but it should be noticed.

We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.

We must be free for the truth; and conversely, to be able to be open toward the truth may be our deepest freedom as human creatures.

The truth often sounds paradoxical.

From the evening breeze to this hand on my shoulder, everything has its truth.

The theory of truth is a series of truisms.

I cling to depression, thinking it a form of truth.

The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.

Love of truth will bless the lover all his days; yet when he brings her home, his fair-faced bride, she comes empty-handed to his door, herself her only dower.

Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.

The grandeur of a philosophy does not certify its truth.

Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space and stupidity begins.

If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.