„Philosophy is a hypothetical interpretation of the unknown (as in metaphysics), or of the inexactly known (as in ethics or political philosophy); it is the front trench in the siege of truth.“

— Will Durant

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„Philosophy … must not bargain away anything of the emphatic concept of truth.“
— Theodor W. Adorno
„The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The basic fallacy, taking precedence over all specific metaphysical fallacies, is to interpret meaning on the model of truth.“
— Hannah Arendt
„Confession frees, but power reduces one to silence; truth does not belong to the order of power, but shares an original affinity with freedom: traditional themes in philosophy, which a political history of truth would have to overturn by showing that truth is not by nature free--nor error servile--but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power. The confession is an example of this.“
— Michel Foucault
„The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.“
— Thomas Aquinas