Pope John Paul II - Fides et ratio (1998)

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Every truth—if it really is truth—presents itself as universal, even if it is not the whole truth. If something is true, then it must be true for all people and at all times.

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Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.

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Faith and reason mutually support each other ; each influences the other, as they offer to each other a purifying critique and a stimulus to pursue the search for deeper understanding

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To argue according to rigorous rational criteria is to guarantee that the results attained are universally valid.

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Quite apart from the fact that it conflicts with the demands and the content of the word of God, nihilism is a denial of the humanity and of the very identity of the human being. It should never be forgotten that the neglect of being inevitably leads to losing touch with objective truth and therefore with the very ground of human dignity.

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To believe it possible to know a universally valid truth is in no way to encourage intolerance; on the contrary, it is the essential condition for sincere and authentic dialogue between persons. On this basis alone is it possible to overcome divisions and to journey together towards full truth

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Philosophy must obey its own rules and be based upon its own principles; truth, however, can only be one.

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Born and nurtured when the human being first asked questions about the reason for things and their purpose, philosophy shows in different modes and forms that the desire for truth is part of human nature itself.

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Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth—in a word, to know himself—so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves.

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Once the truth is denied to human beings, it is pure illusion to try to set them free. Truth and freedom either go together hand in hand or together they perish in misery.

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To men and women there falls the task of exploring truth with their reason, and in this their nobility consists.

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