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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 one understands eternity as timelessness, and not as an unending timespan, then whoever lives in the present lives for all time. |
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| If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done |
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| If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative |
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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 a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him. |
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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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| 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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| No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's been offended. Nobody likes being confronted by a wounded spaniel. Remember that. It is much easier patiently -- and tolerantly -- to avoid the person you have injured than to approach him as a friend. You need courage for that. |
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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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