Quotes About Philosophy

The truth is cruel but it can be loved and it makes free those who have loved it.

There are no whole truths. All truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.

Truth always lags last limping along on the arm of Time.

If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not of God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.

No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.

Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.

When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached.

History gives you insight of the same quality of truth as poetry or philosophy or a novel.

There is no human-like god. If there were, he'd be as silly as you.

Absolute is infinite so there is no absolute truth. There is truth that you can see in infinite ways and make your own.

The truth is that there is no absolute truth.

The truth of the world

Truth is unoriginal.

The only simple truth is that there is nothing simple in this complex universe. Everything relates. Everything connects

...if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.

We can believe things that are true, and we can believe things that are not true. Which is more important---what is true, or what we believe?

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

The color of truth is grey.

There are trivial truths and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Every concept of reality is all in our head, belief is what makes truth.

Numbers do not feel. Do not bleed or weep or hope. They do not know bravery or sacrifice. Love and allegiance. At the very apex of callousness, you will find only ones and zeros.

No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happened to say it by chance, they would not know they had done so.

Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.

There is no 'the truth, ' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.