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“There are two threats to reason, the opinion that one knows the truth about the most important things and the opinion that there is no truth about them. Both of these opinions are fatal to philosophy; the first asserts that the quest for truth is unnecessary, while the second asserts that it is impossible. The Socratic knowledge of ignorance, which I take to be the beginning point of all philosophy, defines the sensible middle ground between two extremes.”

Knows Firsts Two Important Reason Philosophy Opinion Impossible Middle Ignorance Truth Is Important Things Threat Extremes Sensible Quests Unnecessary Middle Ground Two Extremes Socratic

Author:Allan Bloom

“Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for it.”

Done Truth Impossible Truth Is

Book:Darkness and day

Source: Darkness and day

“It seems to me impossible for a civilized man to love or worship, or respect the God of the Old Testament. A really civilized man, a really civilized woman, must hold such a God in abhorrence and contempt... In the New Testament, death is not the end, but the beginning of punishment that has no end. In the New Testament the malice of God is infinite and the hunger of his revenge eternal... This frightful dogma, this infinite lie, made me the implacable enemy of Christianity. The truth is that this belief in eternal pain has been the real persecutor.”

“I should say that all compromise is a "stepping down" of the Truth, is trying to reduce something which cannot be reduced, and that for anyone who has understood life these compromises are impossible.”

Should Trying Impossible Truth Is Understood Compromise

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“The truth is, it's very hard looking back... we look at holocaust now with such knowledge and such a sense of the horror of what it was, that it's hard to believe even now that in 1930s and 1940s, before something like this had happened, that it could be impossible to imagine the extent of this horror.”

Believe Imagine Impossible Horror Truth Is Holocaust Looking Back 1930s Hard To Believe

Author:David Heyman

“A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.”

Certain Impossible Truth Is Contradiction Propositions Tautology

Book:Tractatus Logico Philosophicus

Source: Tractatus Logico Philosophicus