Top 61 Philosophical Truth Quotes
#1. The ultimate philosophical truth is this: Without Christ, all is vanity even when it's easy; with Him, all is well even when it's hard.
Robert J. Morgan
#2. I want to discover a truth for myself that is really true. Whether it's a piece of scientific knowledge, or a philosophical truth.
William Shatner
#3. NEVER allow the enemy to define your terms. If you want to win a war of propaganda, you must be able to manipulate language to expose the truth.
Jenifer Mohammed
#4. The most appealing part is the feeling of learning something true - the pleasure of a truth. For me, that's mostly found in philosophical literature at the moment.
Eyvind Kang
#5. If we cannot justify the very concept of the aesthetic, except as ideology, then aesthetic judgement is without philosophical foundation. An 'ideology' is adopted for its social or political utility, rather than its truth. And
Roger Scruton
#6. I don't reckon misery loves any damn thing at all.
Bruce Machart
#9. Could mankind declare it was truly wise? Did man know everything on earth, or would he ever? Certainly not!
E.A. Bucchianeri
#10. Unlike the interference of ordinary interest, power, or prejudice, which touches philosophy only at its outskirts and becomes at most a matter for philosophical tactics, the claim of revelation to the highest truth touches philosophy at its core and must affect its whole strategy.
Hans Jonas
#11. To inspire is to teach life principles in the spirit of Love.
Delma Pryce
#12. If you can see only what light reveals and hear only what sound announces, then in truth you do not see nor do you hear.
Kahlil Gibran
#14. To talk nonsense in one's own way is almost better than to talk a truth that's someone else's
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#15. Even our parents seemed to agree more and more with the television version of things, listening to the reporters' inanities as though they could tell us the truth about our own lives.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#16. For only when I err do I get away from what I know and what I understand. If "truth" were what I can understand, it would end up being but a small truth, my-sized. Truth must reside precisely in what I shall never understand.
Clarice Lispector
#17. Huntington argues that it is a partial truth, not a total truth, that America is a nation of immigrants; America is a nation of Anglo-Protestant settlers and immigrants both, with the former providing the philosophical and cultural backbone of the society.
Robert D. Kaplan
#18. And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right. The obvious, the silly, and the true had got to be defended. Truisms are true, hold on to that! The solid world exists, its laws do not change. Stones are hard, water is wet, objects unsupported fall towards the earth's centre.
George Orwell
#19. The truth about life is complicated, indefensible and embarrassing.
Alex Weinle
#20. In truth, Liesel was a prisoner too, just held by different kinds of bonds.
Nicki Elson
#21. We are all in such a hurry, we want everything at once. We believe that all truth can be stated in a few minutes. The answer to that is that it cannot.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#23. What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#24. If we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
#25. You know a person is teaching the truth when no one debates it." ~ Amunhotep El Bey
Amunhotep El Bey
#26. Young children are naturally so philosophical. They ask: 'What is real? What is truth?' They have to learn it; they don't automatically know it. To them, it's a game. You can study this for years in college, and yet you probably asked it when you were four or five years old.
Sharon Creech
#27. Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves.
Antonio Machado
#28. The grandeur of a philosophy does not certify its truth.
Mason Cooley
#29. The secret is...good and evil are a myth. There is only the selfish, selfless, and those in between.
Belart Wright
#30. No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth
Blaise Pascal
#32. Expressing doubt is how we begin a journey to discover essential truths.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#33. And I entered and beheld with the eye of my soul ... the Light Unchangeable ... He that knows the Truth, knows what that Light is; and he that knows It, knows Eternity.
Saint Augustine
#34. There are no philosophical problems, there is only a suite of interconnected linguistic cul de sacs created by language's inability to reflect the truth.
Victor Pelevin
#36. Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#37. beneath the fragile and very human veneer of the organized churches of the world, there lies a truth so real and so pristine that all of man's concocted philosophical posings tumble into ruin beside it.
C.S. Lewis
#38. Nothing is Lie until you get to know the truth, as nothing is false in Dream until you get to know that i'm Dreamer.
The Ek
#39. The problem in today's society is that the truth is in short supply and people love soft lies more than hard truths
Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
#40. Night sometimes lends such tragic assistance to catastrophe.
Victor Hugo
#41. It's our founding knowledge that diverts us from the truth
Kloby
#42. And there's the Midnight Growlers, a philosophical movement dedicated to high spiritual ideals and the pursuit of truth and -'
Beer,' said Tinto.
Robert Rankin
#43. Life is fair, truth is faith
NGR
#44. Driving a car provides a person with a rush of dopamine in the brain, which hormonal induced salience spurs modalities of creative and critical thinking regarding philosophical concepts such as truth, logical necessity, possibility, impossibility, chance, and contingency.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#45. Enjoy this moment. The ultimate fulfilment of the dream will not come close to the dream. Enjoy it
Kamand Kojouri
#46. Truth will screw with you every which way, before it lets you to be anywhere near itself.
Fakeer Ishavardas
#48. I am not apologetic. I don't define or defend my philosophical thoughts. You have to feel them, think about them, imagine them, and then try to understand them. My thoughts are my truths. They may not be your truth, and that is fine with me.
Debasish Mridha
#50. This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love.
Robert Graves
#51. Despite its successes, in the end, philosophical thinking always falls short of its real goal. It involves both the wonder of aspiring toward the Truth and the distress of falling short of that Truth. In this way, philosophy can be characterized as wondrous distress.
John Marmysz
#52. True evil needs no reason to exist, it simply is and feeds upon itself.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#53. Whether we are men dreaming we are butterflies or butterflies dreaming we are men, the one truth is that all life is an illusion. We are all wandering shades.
Jenifer Mohammed
#54. The head will go round and round thinking, brooding, philosophizing; it knows only words, logic, argument. But it is very infertile; you cannot get anything out of the head as far as truth is concerned, because truth needs no logic, no argument, no philosophical research.
Osho
#55. A man who examines each subject from a philosophical standpoint cannot neglect them: he has to omit nothing, and state the truth about each topic.
Aristotle.
#56. True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers,
But found in the soul within.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#57. It is hard to hear the truth from people who get paid to distort it.
Sean S. Kamali
#58. Truths are as much a matter of questions as answers.
Ozzie Zehner
#59. Yet, beauty cannot be forgotten,
Eternal Wisdom can never die ...
E.A. Bucchianeri
#60. The truth was always out there, you just had to find it.
Heather Graham
#61. Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.
Karl Kraus
