Quotes About Philosophy

Science repudiates philosophy. In other words, it has never cared to justify its truth or explain its meaning.

If one really believes that the metaphysic one adopts has much to commend it, then one should obviously try to persuade others of its truth or acceptability!

Platitude: All that is mortal of a departed truth.

I do not believe that the truth can ever be in conflict with God.

Truth as philosophy is a gas; as art, it is visible steam.

Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery.

The truth about nature we discover with our brains. The truth about religion we discover with our hearts.

We have an idea of truth, invincible to all scepticism.

A noble truth is a sacred creed.

What if all possible pain was only the grief of truth?

If we ignore it the truth that God is love may slyly come to mean for us the converse, that love is God.

Moral claims aren't, as a class, truth-value apt or not.

A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.

All truth contains an echo of sadness.

It's no fun to appreciate to the full the truth of the materialist proposition that I don't have a body, I am a body.

The fact that there is a general belief in a future life is no evidence of its truth

I'm actually with the classics in general in terms of understanding truth in an existential mode. Therefore, philosophy becomes more a way of life as opposed to simply a mode of discourse.

No one actually lives as if there is no objective truth.

Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling.

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.

Here is the one truth you know for sure: there is no truth for sure.

One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it

If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the "enthusiasm for truth and justice" using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.

Capital T truth is dead.