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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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Found in the topic Enjoyment.
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| "The world is everything that is the case." | |
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Found in the topic World.
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| "One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use
and learn from that. But the difficulty is to remove the prejudice which
stands in the way of doing this. It is not a stupid prejudice." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting
entirely of jokes." | |
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Found in the topic Jogging.
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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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Found in the topic Death.
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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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Found in the topic Logic.
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| "The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is." | |
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Found in the topic Mystics.
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| "We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered,
the problems of life have still not been touched at all. Of course, there
is then no question left, and just this is the answer. The solution of the
problem of life is seen in the vanishing of this problem." | |
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Found in the topic Life.
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| "The human body is the best picture of the human soul." | |
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Found in the topic Housework.
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| "The riddle does not exist. If a question can be put at all, then it
can also be answered." | |
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Found in the topic Question.
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| "Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence
by means of language." | |
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Found in the topic Intelligent.
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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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Found in the topic Illness.
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| "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the
human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in
any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the purpose for
which it has always been intended. Or is some riddle solved by my
surviving forever? Is not this eternal life itself as much of a riddle as
our present life?" | |
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Found in the topic Soul.
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