Frederick Copleston Quotes on Truth
Frederick Charles Copleston was an English Jesuit priest, philosopher, and historian of philosophy and the author of the standard English-language survey of Western philosophy, A History of Philosophy, in nine volumes published between 1946 and 1975. This page collects quotes attributed to Frederick Copleston on the topic of truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Frederick Copleston:
“To understand a philosopher we must enter his concerns from the inside.”
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Attributed to Frederick Copleston:
“The argument for the existence of God rests on the demand for sufficient reason.”
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Attributed to Frederick Copleston:
“Philosophy without history is shallow; history without philosophy is blind.”
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Attributed to Frederick Copleston:
“We must not measure the past by the standards of the present.”