Love truth Quote by Plato

In regard to the philosophers, if they be true philosophers, i.e., lovers of truth, they should not be irritated that the earth moves. Rather,…

— Galileo Galilei

Les vrais philosophes sont comme les e le phants, qui en marchant ne posent jamais le second pied a' terre que le premier ne…

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

“To him [Faraday], as to all true philosophers, the main value of a fact was its position and suggestiveness in the general sequence of…

— John Tyndall

The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with…

— Plato

States will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers.

— Plato

It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived…

— Anonymous

Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education.

— Josh Lanyon

A State would be happy where philosophers were kings, or kings philosophers.

— Plato

Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom…

— Plato

“Unless,” I said, “the philosophers rule as kings or those now called kings and chiefs genuinely and adequately philosophize, and political power and philosophy…

— Plato

The human race will have no respite from evils until those who are really philosophers acquire political power or until, through some divine dispensation,…

— Plato

Until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophise, that is, until political power…

— Plato