Philosophical Truth Quotes

Truth is a property of sentences, since sentences are dependent for their existence upon vocabularies, and since vocabularies are made by human beings, so are truths.

The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but theconsequences and rules of action drawn from it.

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

The ancient Greeks, as Plato reports, believed that we discover truth through "reminiscence," that is by "remembering," by intuitively searching into our own experience.

Philosophy ... must not bargain away anything of the emphatic concept of truth.

When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.

Everything is true,' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.' 'Will you be all right?' 'I'll be all right,' he said, and thought, And I'm going to die. Both those are true, too.

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.

Buddha was speaking about reality. Reality may be one, in its deepest essence, but Buddha also stated that all propositions about reality are only contingent.

God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!

Truth as such is not a particularly important concept in naturalistic philosophy.

Tout ce qu'on invente est vrai, soi-en sure. La poesie est une chose aussi precise que la geometrie.

In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.

Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.

Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.

If theological ideas prove to have a value for concrete life, they will be true, for pragmatism, in the sense of being good for so much. How much more they are true, will depend entirely on their relations to the other truths that also have to be acknowledged.

One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.

Truth is that which affirms propositionally the nature of reality as it is.

The agnostic, the skeptic, is neurotic, but this does not imply a false philosophy; it implies the discovery of facts to which he does not know how to adapt himself. The intellectual who tries to escape from neurosis by escaping from the facts is merely acting on the principle that “where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise.

The grandeur of a philosophy does not certify its truth.

It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.

The philosophers have always given truth a bill of divorce, by separating what nature has joined together and vice versa.

There are many levels of truth.

Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.