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Quotes About Philosophy

Let us not play at kittly-benders. There is a solid bottom everywhere.
~ Henry David Thoreau
If there was a god, he wouldn't let a guy walk right up and shoot you in the face now would he? That's right, now you get the picture. Truth burns doesn't it?
~ Henry Rollins
And seek for truth in the groves of Academe.
~ Horace
Hegel says that Truth is a great word and the thing is greater still. With Dave we never seemed to get past the word.
~ Iris Murdoch
So long as you believe in some truth you do not believe in yourself. You are a servant. A man of faith.
~ Jack McDevitt
The realization that life is absurdand cannot be an end, but only abeginning. This is a truth nearly allgreat minds have taken as their starting point.
~ James Branch Cabell
One of the near-death experience truths is that each person integrates their near-death experience into their own pre-existing belief system.
~ Jodi Long
The philosophers have always given truth a bill of divorce, by separating what nature has joined together and vice versa.
~ Johann Georg Hamann
Truth defies simplicity.
~ John Green
I never can feel certain of any truth, but from a clear perception of its beauty.
~ John Keats
Justice and truth are the common ties of society
~ John Locke
To reason, to argue. It is to walk with crutches in search of the truth. We come to it with a leap.
~ Joseph Joubert
words can never get at the truth.
~ Katherine Anne Porter
Life is weaker than Death and Death is weaker than Truth.
~ Khalil Gibran
Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Though tightly the net of words forms, how surely truth slips out.
~ Laozi
Truth sounds paradoxical!
~ Laozi
Not sure there is a truth that's "for sure."
~ Lenny Jacobson
La vérité est sur une courbe dont notre ésprit suit éternellement l'asymptote. Truth is on a curve whose asymptote our spirit follows eternally.
~ Leo Errera
Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Behind one truth there is always yet another.
~ Lloyd Alexander
Truth implies meaning.
~ Lukas Foss
Truth is a big concept.
~ Lukas Foss
The propagation of truth and nonviolence can be done less by books than by actually living on those principles.
~ Mahatma Gandhi