Quotes About Philosophy

The correct meaning of the statement The Vedas are beginningless and eternal is that the law or truth revealed by them is permanent and changeless.

To justify Christian morality because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion.

Theology, however implausible many of its truth claims, is one of the most ambitious theoretical arenas left in an increasingly specialized world

The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine.

The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but cannot avoid, without reckoning anew from the beginning.

In truth, the laboratory is the forecourt of the temple of philosophy, and whoso has not offered sacrifices and undergone purification there has little chance of admission into the sanctuary.

To establish what is true is very difficult. Frequently it is easier to establish what is false. And, passing through the false, it's possible to understand something about truth.

Fantasy plunders the well of our deepest selves for existent truth instead of creating new truths out of the illusory fabric of recent events or the flow of society.

God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!

But what is truth? 'Twas Pilate's question put To Truth itself, that deign'd him no reply.

By beauty of course I mean truth, for the one involves the other; it is only the false in art which is ugly, and it is only the ugly that is universal.

...the taste of the finely-worded truth rolled upon the tongue as its thought is revolved in the mind.

'What would be better for us to believe!' This sounds very like a definition of truth

To give the theory plenty of 'rope' and see if it hangs itself eventually is better tactics than to choke it off at the outset b abstract accusations of self-contradiction

To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein

I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives

I want to discover a truth for myself that is really true. Whether it's a piece of scientific knowledge, or a philosophical truth.

This workshop where ideals are manufactured--it seems to me it stinks of so many lies

Beauty is truth, truth beauty, —that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know

Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Die Wahrheit hat keinen Erfolg.

Einer hat immer Unrecht: aber mit zweien beginnt die Wahrheit. Einer kann sich nicht beweisen: aber zweie kann man bereits nicht widerlegen.

Falsity consists in the privation of knowledge, which inadequate, fragmentary, or confused ideas involve.