For doubt can exist only where a question exists, a question only where an answer exists, and an answer only where something can be said.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
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Words are deeds.
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Philosophy unravels the knots in our thinking; hence its results must be simple, but its activity is as complicated as the knots that it unravels.
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It is not by recognizing the want of courage in someone else that you acquire courage yourself...
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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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What I give is the morphology of the use of an expression. I show that it has kinds of uses of which you had not dreamed. In philosophy one feels forced to look at a concept in a certain way. What I do is suggest, or even invent, other ways of looking at it. I suggest possibilities of which you had not previously thought. You thought that there was one possibility, or only two at most. But I made you think of others. Furthermore, I made you see that it was absurd to expect the concept to conform to those narrow possibilities. Thus your mental cramp is relieved, and you are free to look around the field of use of the expression and to describe the different kinds of uses of it.
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Human beings have a physical need to tell themselves when at work: "Let's have done with it now," and it's having constantly to go on thinking in the face of this need when philosophizing that makes this work so strenuous.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
The thought is the significant proposition.
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