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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When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.

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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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One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'

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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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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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It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.

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The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.

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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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Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.

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