Piet Mondrian Quotes

Nothing is easier than to simplify life and them make a philosophy about it. The trouble is that the resulting philosophy is true only of that simplified life.

The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities andrelations which the world has exemplified or will exemplify. The truth is all things seen under the form of eternity.

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.

Science is nothing more than a neverending search for the truth.

The only roads of enquiry there are to think of: one, that it is and that it is not possible for it not to be, this is the path of persuasion (for truth is its companion); the other, that it is not and that it must not be - this I say to you is a path wholly unknowable.

The crude real will not by itself yield truth.

Supposing truth is a woman -- what then?

Religion and science have always been matters of faith in something. It is the same something.

Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.

Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing.

The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.

L'absurde est la notion essentielle et la premie' re ve? rite? . The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth.

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge.

Subjectivity is objective.

Mathematics is the only true metaphysics.

Man is the measure of all things, of the reality of those which are, and of the unreality of those which are not.

Truth is that which cannot be proved false.

Truth happens to an idea

Reality is the completion of experience.

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

Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing. If we give heed to this, then another whole realm for the essence of technology will open itself up to us. It is the realm of revealing, i.e., of truth

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.