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Nikolai Lossky Quotes on Truth

Nikolai Onufrievich Lossky was a Russian Orthodox religious philosopher and the principal architect of the metaphysical position he called intuitivism. This page collects quotes attributed to Nikolai Lossky on the topic of truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Nikolai Lossky:

    “Knowledge is the immediate presence of the object in the knower.”

  • Attributed to Nikolai Lossky:

    “The world is a whole, in which every part is internally related to every other.”

  • Attributed to Nikolai Lossky:

    “Personality is the bearer of metaphysical reality.”

  • Attributed to Nikolai Lossky:

    “Reality must be intuited, not merely inferred.”