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Quotes About Philosophy

Kandinsky in Munich uttered the well known words: 'Everything is permitted!' In 1961; we still live by this heritage, which in truth is inexhaustible.
~ Michel Seuphor
Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.
~ Napoleon Hill
Truth is created, not discover!
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Faith is the problem. Faith is unreliable way to think about problems that will not lead to the truth.
~ Peter Boghossian
Truth is I don't think God on a daily basis. I think politics, science.
~ Peter Mullan
My poems often start with an idea, some kind of inspiration. I don't expect anything. Every now and then something like "The One Truth" comes out.
~ Philip Schultz
Truth as such is not a particularly important concept in naturalistic philosophy.
~ Phillip E. Johnson
The ideal itself is but truth clothed in the forms of art.
~ Octave Feuillet
Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you replace the word God in the Bible with the word Truth, it reads exactly right.
~ Ricky Williams
I would not presume to say that I know anything about "The Truth," whatever that is.
~ Rob Nilsson
The truth is the river flows into the canyon Of Ceasing-to-Question-What-Doesn't-Concern-Us, As sooner or later we have to cease somewhere.
~ Robert Frost
Beauty and Truth, tho' never found, are worthy to be sought.
~ Robert Williams Buchanan
The ancient Greeks, as Plato reports, believed that we discover truth through "reminiscence," that is by "remembering," by intuitively searching into our own experience.
~ Rollo May
Would there be any truth in saying that psychology was created by the sophists to sow distrust between man and his world?
~ Rudolf Arnheim
Truth is a free creation of the human spirit, that never would exist at all if we did not generate it ourselves.
~ Rudolf Steiner
We judge all things according to the divine truth.
~ Saint Augustine
There is no permanent absolute unchangeable truth; what we should pursue is the most convenient arrangement of our ideas.
~ Samuel Butler
The motto of Harvard isn't 'nice,' it's truth. The motto of Yale isn't 'light and nice,' it's light and truth.
~ Scott Kenemore
What is true belongs to me!
~ Seneca the Younger
Simple is the language of truth.
~ Seneca the Younger
We often feel that a clever aphorism captures a truth that would require pages to defend in any other way.
~ Steven Pinker