Top 100 True Philosophy Quotes
#1. Philosophy means thinking things out for oneself. Ultimately, there can be only one true philosophy, since reason is one and we all live in the same world.
William Ralph Inge
#2. Where the dance of Meera and the silence of Buddha meet, blossoms the true philosophy of Rajneesh.
Amrita Pritam
#3. I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.
Baruch Spinoza
#4. We must laugh and philosophize and manage our households and look after our other affairs all at the same time, and never stop proclaiming the words of the true philosophy.
Epicurus
#5. The divine element manifests itself (or show up) in man as well by his aptitude for science, than by his aptitude for virtue. True morality, true philosophy and true art are in their essence ("dans leur essence", Fr.) religious.
African Spir
#6. The true philosophy, known and practiced by Solomon, is the basis on which Masonry is founded.
Albert Pike
#7. Nature does not teach. A true philosophy may sometimes validate an experience of nature; an experience of nature cannot validate a philosophy. Nature will not verify any theological or metaphysical proposition (or not in the manner we are now considering); she will help to show what it means.
C.S. Lewis
#8. What is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, that climb up into the real world which we shall call true philosophy.
Plato
#9. A true philosophy may sometimes validate an experience of nature; an experience of nature cannot validate a philosophy.
C.S. Lewis
#10. True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.
Victor Cousin
#11. The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.
Mark Twain
#12. True philosophy consists in relearning to look at the world. Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Simon Critchley
#13. True philosophy is that which renders us to ourselves, and all others who surround us, better, and at the same time more content, more patient, more calm and more ready for all decent and pure enjoyment.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#14. True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: 'I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live
Albert Schweitzer
#15. Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
Edgar Allan Poe
#16. The foundation stone of all philosophy is self-knowledge and being true to thy self. A person must address an inner necessity in order to realize the fundamental truth about oneself, seek self-improvement, and gain knowledge through experience.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#17. He who has a true idea simultaneously knows that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth of the thing perceived.
Baruch Spinoza
#18. The true color of intelligence is not in knowledge but in the wisdom of actions.
Debasish Mridha
#19. When the power of love overtakes all other power then we will find the true peace on earth.
Debasish Mridha
#20. There is nothing to me but you. I know it's pathetic but, oh darling, it's true.
F.K. Preston
#21. True prayer does not seek God's help, but it focuses on what is good for everyday life and all of humanity.
Debasish Mridha
#22. It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.
Sophia Loren
#23. With true love, you can move mountains, make unusual sacrifices, live a life of deprivations and still be happy.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#24. One may not be able to trade in gratitude as a currency, but gratitude is the currency of true wealth. - L. R. W. Lee
L.R.W. Lee
#25. True education should enhance the power of the imagination.
Debasish Mridha
#26. Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.
Albert Schweitzer
#28. Part of being of a true existentialist is wanting to be what we make ourselves be by the way we choose to act, as opposed to making excuses for the way we act and regretting it.
Gary Cox
#29. To see the true beauty of a person, see through the mirror of your love.
Debasish Mridha
#30. Persistence is the fundamental ingredient of true success.
Debasish Mridha
#31. True love means knowing that your love may never be returned, and loving all the more because of it.
Michel Templet
#32. You will find your true spirit when you lose your egocentric, self-centered desires and fill your mind with pure love and non-judgmental thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
#33. True life begins with a dream to dazzle, a purpose to live for, and a plan to realize it.
Debasish Mridha
#36. Beware of those who speak ill of others in your presence; don't be surprised of what they say about you in your absence.
A.J. Garces
#37. What you see is not true, but what you think about what you see is the truth.
Debasish Mridha
#38. True courage is in knowing that there is nothing to scare you.
Debasish Mridha
#39. With love, don't desire to tie someone down but to set them free.
Debasish Mridha
#40. Pain is inevitable in life; you can't avoid it. You can only feel it. Realize its true nature without emotional attachment and then transcend yourself and your emotions beyond that level. Pain will not go away, but you find that it is not hurting you that much.
Debasish Mridha
#41. To find true peace, forgive those who fill your mind with hatred and instead show them the path of love.
Debasish Mridha
#42. The true self is that which is in touch with reality.
The false self is the aspects of your personality that are adapted to threats and no longer consciously recognizes either the adaptation or the threat.
Stefan Molyneux
#43. They don't think up questions like that on the basis of what might be true; they concoct the questions on the basis of what might be sensational if it just happened to be true.
Walter M. Miller Jr.
#44. My writing, like everything I do, comes profoundly from my heart. I believe that if you follow your heart you will be successful in one way or another. Old-fashioned as that might sound, the philosophy is true.
Kim Elizabeth
#45. To live on the land we must learn from the ocean, to be true as the tide and free as the wind swell.
John Denver
#46. Only mothers will ever know the true struggle and sacrifice it takes to create life. Authors come in at a close second.
R.P. Falconer
#47. Don't waste time trying to make him think that materialism is true! Make him think it is strong, or stark, or courageous - that it is the philosophy of the future.4 That's the sort of thing he cares about. The
C.S. Lewis
#48. Religion is not a book, it is not an institution, and it is not even a person. True Religion is realization of the self.
Abhijit Naskar
#49. True freedom is a mental condition that no one can take or give to you.
Debasish Mridha
#50. Epistemologists have come to a loose description of knowledge as justified true belief which is not based off false assumptions, but even this is fallacious as the prerequisite knowledge required for justification makes this a circular definition.
Chris Matakas
#51. A process of reason is a process of constant choice in answer to the question: True or False? - Right or Wrong?
Ayn Rand
#52. The deep observation of nature can transform your consciousness into a higher consciousness that will awaken your true being.
Debasish Mridha
#53. The true philosopher lives his life as a dress rehearsal for death.
Peter Kreeft
#54. It seemed too good to be true and thus, be human philosophy, clearly false.
Stephenie Meyer
#55. Write what you believe to be true; don't worry about who agrees or disagrees with you.
Debasish Mridha
#56. You do not need to be a mountain to feel strong. Be like a little flexible stream to have true power.
Debasish Mridha
#57. I have been told the best things in life are free ~ I found them very expensive.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#58. If life is an adventure, then a vacation is an adventure to find true joy.
Debasish Mridha
#59. Your never over the hill to find true love because sometimes, that's where it is
Benny Bellamacina
#60. Philosophy is the true home of irony, which might be defined as logical beauty: for wherever men are philosophizing in spoken or written dialogues, and provided they are not entirely systematic, irony ought to be produced and postulated; even the Stoics regarded urbanity as a virtue.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#61. We will find true peace only when we learn to see that there is no difference among ourselves, realize that we are different manifestations of one, and we love each other as brother and sister.
Debasish Mridha
#62. 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
#63. Joy is the emotional expression of the courageous YES to one's own true being.
Paul Tillich
#64. No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a socialist or a communist or support programs leading in that direction. These evil philosophies are incompatible with Mormonism, the true gospel of Jesus Christ.
Ezra Taft Benson
#66. I love being a conservative. We conservatives are proud of our philosophy. Unlike our liberal friends, who are constantly looking for new words to conceal their true beliefs and are in a perpetual state of reinvention, we conservatives are unapologetic about our ideals.
Rush Limbaugh
#68. you know things, without knowing how you know, but you know it is true
Avis J. Williams
#69. LORD GORING: ... All I do know is that life cannot be understood without much charity, cannot be lived without much charity. It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of this world, whatever may.
Oscar Wilde
#70. The most wonderful and amazing people are those, who are true to themselves ...
Anamika Mishra
#71. The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.
George Henry Lewes
#72. Do what you love; love what you do. You will be happy; your dreams will come true.
Debasish Mridha
#73. True wealth does not glitter. It is revealed by the beauty of a life well lived.
Debasish Mridha
#74. True heroes and ideas never fall in the final sense of the word. They can only encounter temporary setbacks in their difficult journey to progress and success,
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#75. True friendship is a house where we can take off our masks.
Debasish Mridha
#77. To ask whether the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is true or false, is essentially a meaningless question.
Carl L. Becker
#78. It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.
Will Durant
#79. We all live within our belief solar systems; it's how we make it through each day. What feels "real" and "true" is based on it. Internal consistency and function means that a belief solar system is simply livable, but it says nothing about its veracity.
Daniel Ionson
#80. True beauty is not in your face or in your dress but in your dignity.
Debasish Mridha
#81. Burning passion, definite purpose and joyful persistence are the defining force for true success.
Debasish Mridha
#84. My brothers and my sisters, do always persevere in true and earnest prayer, and the Lord will hear you. Believe that the highest revelations of science are conformable to the doctrine of the efficacy of prayer; that in this doctrine the highest philosophy harmonizes with the purest devotion.
Keshub Chandra Sen
#85. Education is the true gift of love that can eradicate the poverty of a nation.
Debasish Mridha
#86. A philosopher knows that in reality he knows very little. That is why he constantly strives to achieve true insight. Socrates was one of these rare people. He knew that he knew nothing about life and about the world. And now comes the important part: it troubled him that he knew so little.
Jostein Gaarder
#88. Life's value is lost when the pursuit of money becomes the goal as opposed to the pursuit of true happiness.
Steven Redhead
#89. I am not pretty, I am not ugly,
I am not true, I am not false,
I am just me,
a reality, a conception not a misinterpretation.
Debasish Mridha
#90. the whole philosophy behind this book is that true success lies in knowing your weaknesses and playing to your strengths. In short, when you suck at something and don't want it anyway, cut your losses and move on.
Sophia Amoruso
#92. Haven't you noticed that opinion without knowledge is always a poor thing? At the best it is blind - isn't anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding like a blind man on the right road?
Plato
#93. Isn't it true that philosophy is a barrier? For sure it screens and modifies every bit of information that the mind allows to enter.
Debasish Mridha
#94. Great and terrible systems of divinity and philosophy lie round about us, which, if true, might drive a wise man mad.
Walter Bagehot
#95. There is only one thing that can never go past a certain point in its alliance with oppression
and that is orthodoxy. I may, it is true, twist orthodoxy so as partly to justify a tyrant. But I can easily make up a German philosophy to justify him entirely.
G.K. Chesterton
#96. Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#97. Only you can see true beauty when you focus your beautiful light on things.
Debasish Mridha
#98. Sometimes we must leave our true homes for something greater to come.
Mary-Jean Harris
#99. True love is when you love someone without hesitation, without expectations, and without judgment.
Debasish Mridha
#100. I just find the evangelical church too, well, restrictive. But the School of Practical Philosophy is nonconfrontational. We believe there are many forms of Scripture. What is true is true and will never change, whether it's in the Bible or in Shakespeare. It's about oneness.
Hugh Jackman
