A confession has to be part of your new life.
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A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
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A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.
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A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion.
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A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.
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A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
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Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
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Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.
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For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word ''meaning'' it can be defined thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.
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For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.
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I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
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If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.
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If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
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If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
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If you do know that here is one hand, we'll grant you all the rest.
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In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).
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It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
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It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.
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It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed ''Wisdom.'' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: ''Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.''
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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
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Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
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Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
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Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
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Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
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Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
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Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.
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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.
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Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.
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Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
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Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.
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Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.
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Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.
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Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
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The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.
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The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
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The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
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The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.
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There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.
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Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
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You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.
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You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded.
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