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Quotes About Truth

I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law
~ Wilfred Owen
Because men have so long ruled the world, it does not follow that the philosophy by which they have ruled it is the correct one.
~ Dora Russell
I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher. -Video barbam et pallium; philosophum nondum video
~ Aulus Gellius
The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.
~ Voltaire
There is your truth and there is my truth. As for the universal truth, it does not exist.
~ Amish Tripathi
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
~ Novalis
It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true
~ Bertrand Russell
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
~ Francis Bacon
Philosophy appears to concern itself only with the truth, but perhaps expresses only fantasies, while literature appears to concern itself only with fantasies, but perhaps it expresses the truth.
~ Antonio Tabucchi
The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearances of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them
~ George Santayana
Faith and philosophy are air, but events are brass.
~ Herman Melville
My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal!
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know.
~ Bertrand Russell
It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.
~ George Santayana
Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.
~ Plato
It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively.
~ Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock
You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another truth.
~ Niels Bohr
As God's followers, we must be ever watchful not to allow diluted teachings or secular philosophies to creep into our doctrine.
~ Jonathan Falwell
How can you qualify the difference between a sin and a lie.
~ Bob Mould
The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg
O philosophy, you leader of life.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Logic is the art of making truth prevail.
~ Jean de la Bruyere