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Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers. -- John Churton Collins
Truth as such is not a particularly important concept in naturalistic philosophy. -- Phillip E. Johnson
There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies. -- Raoul Vaneigem
History gives you insight of the same quality of truth as poetry or philosophy or a novel. -- Simon Schama
Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth. -- Albert Pike
It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment. -- Thomas Malthus
When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry. -- Muhammad Iqbal
Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else. -- Bob Dylan
Philosophy has to be enquiring; it can take nothing on faith, and its methods are based not on the blind acceptance of authority, but on establishing truths by reason and argument. -- Julian Baggini
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
The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words, there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags. -- James Buchan
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
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. -- John F. Kennedy
My philosophy has always been that I hope I have a good enough day to give me another one, I hope that I have a good enough year to give me another year. I know that's cliched, but it's the truth in how I approach my career. -- David Nail
Philosophy is the science which considers truth. -- Aristotle
Philosophy starts with doubt and loves only truth. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
The grandeur of a philosophy does not certify its truth. -- Mason Cooley
Philosophy ... must not bargain away anything of the emphatic concept of truth. -- Theodor Adorno
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Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it. -- Henry David Thoreau
My philosophy is TRUTH unto me. Through expressing my individuality I become free. -- Stuart Wilde
Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy. -- Plato
Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth. -- Alexandre Dumas
The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy. -- Sri Aurobindo
Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety. -- Baruch Spinoza
The sole philosophy open to those who doubt the possibility of truth is absolute silence -- even mental. -- Jacques Maritain
Science repudiates philosophy. In other words, it has never cared to justify its truth or explain its meaning. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation. -- William James
Philosophy became a gloomy science, in the labyrinth of which people vainly tried to find the exit, called The Truth. -- Edward Joseph Schwartz
The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is. -- Thomas Aquinas
Will our Philosophy to later Life Seem but a crudeness of the planet's youth, Our Wisdom but a parasite of Truth? -- Julian Huxley
I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false. -- Albert Camus
A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion. -- Charles Peguy
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
Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind, and therefore independence of all social, political or religious prejudice... It loves one thing only... truth. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
Can reason be an idol? Certainly. The philosophy of rationalism puts human reason in the place of God as the source and standard of all truth. -- Nancy Pearcey
I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect the truth by taking it a step further. -- Criss Jami
He was a man more concerned with the truth than his arrest quota, a philosophy that would often have him skate on thin ice with the higher ups. -- Bruce Crown
Philosophy is not one truth, but thousands of truths. You don't have to believe in just one thing. When you chose one idea, you close yourself to the rest. -- Marcel Wanders
Let the answers be wrong, let the philosophy be mistaken -- errors are more valuable than truths: truth is of the machine, error is alive; truth reassures, error disturbs. -- Yevgeny Zamyatin
The deepest level of truth uncovered by science, & by philosophy, is the fundamental truth of unity. At that deepest subnuclear level of our reality, you & i are literally one. -- John Hagelin
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

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