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A good guide will take you through the more important streets more often than he takes you down side streets; a bad guide will do the opposite. In philosophy I'm a rather bad guide.
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If someone is merely ahead of his time, it will catch up to him one day.
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For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.
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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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Does man think because he has found that thinking pays? Does he bring his children up because he has found it pays?
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We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.
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Schiller writes in a letter to Goethe, 17 December 1795 of a ‘poetic mood’. I think I know what he means, I think I am familiar with it myself. It is the mood of receptivity to nature and one in which one’s thoughts seem as vivid as nature itself.
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Worte sind Taten.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Kierkegaard writes: If Christianity were so easy and cozy, why should God in his Scriptures have set Heaven and Earth in motion and threatened eternal punishments? - Question: But then in that case why is this Scriptures so unclear?
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An entire mythology is stored within our language.
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'I never believed in God before.' - that I understand. But not: 'I never really believed in Him before.'
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There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man-but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point.
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Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.
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1. If you do know that here is one hand, we'll grant you all the rest.
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I believe that one of the things Christianity says is that sound doctrines are all useless. That you have to change your life. (Or the direction of your life.)
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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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So we do sometimes think because it has been found to pay.
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The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.
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If you want to go down deep you do not need to travel far; indeed, you don't have to leave your most immediate and familiar surroundings.
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You could attach prices to thoughts. Some cost a lot, some a little. And how does one pay for thoughts? The answer, I think, is: with courage.
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To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.
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The subject does not belong to the world, but it is a limit of the world. (5.632)
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I am my world. (The microcosm.) (5.63)
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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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