Johann Georg Zimmermann Quotes

There are many levels of truth.

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

Everyone who observes himself doubting observes a truth, and about that which he observes he is certain; therefore he is certain about a truth. Everyone therefore who doubts whether truth exists has in himself a truth on which not to doubt.... Hence one who can doubt at all ought not to doubt the existence of truth.

Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down".

Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true.

In any case, the idea of giving "all" of reality is overly simple and absurd.

I would have offered you a forest of truth, but you wish to speak of a single leaf

The crude real will not by itself yield truth.

The instruments for the quest for Truth are as simple as they are difficult.

God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!

Truth travels down from the heights of philosophy to the humblest walks of life, and up from the simplest perceptions of an awakened intellect to the discoveries which almost change the face of the world. At every stage of its progress it is genial, luminous, creative.

A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence.

Truth is that which cannot be proved false.

One of the main reasons for the existence of philosophy is not that it enables you to find truth (it can never do that) but that it does provide you a refuge for definitions.

Truth happens to an idea

All reasoning ends in an appeal to self-evidence.

Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

I have to tell it again and again: I have no doctrine. I only point out something. I point out reality, I point out something in reality which has not or too little been seen. I take him who listens to me at his hand and lead him to the window. I push open the window and point outside. I have no doctrine, I carry on a dialogue.

Reality lies far beyond space and time, and I need to know why.

Logic is the foundation of the certainty of all the knowledge we acquire.

The Truth lies not in the Yes and not in the No, but in the knowledge and the beginning from which the Yes and the No arise.

We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.

Wisdom is only found in truth.

Thinking does not lead to truth; truth is the beginning of thought.