Philosophical problems can be compared to locks on safes, which can be opened by dialing a certain word or number, so that no force can open the door until just this word has been hit upon, and once it is hit upon any child can open it.
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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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Philosophy hasn't made any progress? If someone scratches where it itches, do we have to see progress? Is it not genuine scratching otherwise, or genuine itching?
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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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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Moods)
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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Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
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If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
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A religious symbol does not rest on any opinion. And error belongs only with opinion. One would like to say: This is what took place here; laugh, if you can.
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If the true is what is grounded, then the ground is not true, nor yet false.
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Every explanation is after all an hypothesis.
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