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Quotes About Truth

What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Philosophy as science, as serious, rigorous, indeed apodictically rigorous science -- the dream is over.
~ Edmund Husserl
The Occultists, however, know that the traditions of Esoteric Philosophy must be the right ones, simply because they are the most logical, and reconcile every difficulty.
~ H. P. Blavatsky
Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
The true Philosophy, known and practised by Solomon, is the basis on which Masonry is founded.
~ Albert Pike
Be good, and you will be lonesome, be lonesome and you will be free. Live a lie and you will live to regret it, that's what living is to me.
~ Jimmy Buffett
The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.
~ Eric Hoffer
There is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has been obtained from experience, or derived in some way from our senses.
~ William Harvey
My philosophy is TRUTH unto me. Through expressing my individuality I become free.
~ Stuart Wilde
In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred.
~ Karl Marx
Philosophy is the highest music.
~ Plato
People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.
~ John Cheever
If nothing is the way it seems, then this life is just a haunted dream.
~ Steve Winwood
Philosophy ... must not bargain away anything of the emphatic concept of truth.
~ Theodor Adorno
It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it.
~ Willard Van Orman Quine
Nothing is easier than to simplify life and them make a philosophy about it. The trouble is that the resulting philosophy is true only of that simplified life.
~ Walter Lippmann
One of my major preoccupations is the approximation between what I say and what I do, between what I seem to be and what I am actually becoming.
~ Paulo Freire
I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.
~ Ayn Rand
The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
~ George Santayana
The menu is not the meal.
~ Alan W. Watts
The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
~ Jean Cocteau
Philosophy is the art of living.
~ Plutarch