Isak Dinesen Quotes

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.

Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.

Hegel said that 'truth' is subjective, thus rejecting the existence of any 'truth' above or beyond human reason. All knowledge is human knowledge.

Subjectivity is objective.

Everything is true and not true about everything. That’s one thing I’ve learned.

It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood.

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

Truth happens to an idea

Man is the measure of all things, of things that are that they are, and of things that are not that they are not.

All our knowledge originates in opinion.

Socrates' way of life is the consequence of his recognition that we can know what it is that we do not know about the most important things and that we are by nature obliged to seek that knowledge.

A philosopher who says, 'There are no truths, only interpretations,' risks the retort: 'Is that true, or only an interpretation?'

One cannot conceive of objectivity without subjectivity.

There is no scientific proof that only scientific proofs are good proofs; no way to prove by the scientific method that the scientific method is the only valid method.

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

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.

There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.

Goodness, Truth and Beauty come first

Philosophy, the love of Wisdom, is at the very bottom defence against the incomprehensible.

It has never been in my power to study anything, mathematics, ethics, metaphysics, gravitation, thermodynamics, optics, chemistry, comparative anatomy, astronomy, psychology, phonetics, economics, the history of science, whist, men and women, wine, metrology, except as a study of semeiotic .

Truth is more than a mental exercise.

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

To be is to be perceived