Quotes About Philosophy

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

The soul is unwillingly deprived of truth.

It is better by assenting to truth to conquer opinion, than by assenting to opinion to be conquered by truth.

The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity.

I think truth as an idea should be left to the philosophers and perhaps religious leaders and politicians, and professional people who deal with that idea.

The most appealing part is the feeling of learning something true - the pleasure of a truth. For me, that's mostly found in philosophical literature at the moment.

In very truth the days are almost free, and if it is another way of saying that our lives are empty, well -- there are days when emptiness is spacious, and non-existence elevating . . .

What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.

The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!

Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?

The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie

It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes truth when it is pronounced unpleasant.

Error has made animals into men; is truth in a position to make men into animals again?

[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.

The reasons for which 'this' world has been characterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate its reality; any other kind of reality is absolutely indemonstrable.

Each word of Heraclitus expresses the pride and the majesty of truth, but of truth grasped in intuitions rather than attained by the rope ladder of logic.

Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive.

Propositions on which all men are in agreement are true: if they are not true we have no truth at all.

No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error.

Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the truth in French or in German.

Scientific and philosophic truth have parted company.

We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality.

What stuff is the man made of who is not coexistent in our thought with the purest and sublimest truth?

All expression of truth does at length take this deep ethical form.