eternal truths
Forever valid principles
Eternal truths are principles or facts considered valid across all times and circumstances—unchanging regardless of era, culture, or perspective.
Philosophy and religion trade in claims about eternal truths: the nature of justice, the existence of God, mathematical axioms.
The phrase often carries a note of solemnity or skepticism depending on the speaker: He pontificated about eternal truths while ignoring practical realities.
What counts as genuinely eternal remains perpetually contested.
- metaphysicsPhilosophy of existence's nature
- epistemologyTheory of knowledge
- ontologyStudy of existence's nature
- divinitySacred nature or nougat-like sweet
- axiomSelf-evident starting principle
universal principles · first principles · perennial philosophy · higher truth · enlightenment · logic · archetypes · timeless wisdom · logos · divine order · justice · self-evident · a priori · ideal forms · essence · karma · universals · transcendence
- truthstruth, facts, fact, reality, verities
- metaphysicsessence, being, reality, existence, substance theory
- Cartesian theologyGod's existence, perfect being, divine perfection, cogito ergo sum
- RationalismDescartes, cogito ergo sum, a priori, Spinoza, clear ideas
- sayingssayings, saying, proverb, proverbs, adage
- wisdom sayingsproverbs, sayings, adages, maxims, aphorisms
eternal truthsbaseless claims
Assertions without factual support
guesswork · conjecture · conventional wisdom · superstitions · prejudices