Axioms Philosophy Quotes

#1. Things happen when they should, not when they can.

Raheel Farooq

#2. When Keats says: 'Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses', what he means is that we don't necessarily believe what a poem is saying if it comes out and tells us in an absolutely head-on, in-your-face way; we only believe it to be true if we feel it to be true.

Andrew Motion

#3. Paradoxes are less paradoxical in their reference to truth than most of the most plausible axioms.

Raheel Farooq

#4. For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses.

John Keats

#5. Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt - particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms.

Will Durant

#6. I'm not against the concept of Creators/God, I'm against the antiquated beliefs that there are evil things, which are merely axioms we concocted out of our inadequacy as mortal beings, primitive brain, and underdeveloped technology.

Andreas Laurencius

#7. Truth can be stated simply, but cannot be understood as such.

Raheel Farooq