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A confession has to be part of your new life.  
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and ope...  
A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in co...  
A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion.  
A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer wh...  
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting enti...  
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If ...  
Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to wher...  
For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ t...  
For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.  
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in or...  
I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the h...  
If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason ...  
If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get do...  
If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat differe...  
If you do know that here is one hand, we'll grant you all the rest.  
In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find ...  
It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself...  
It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction ...  
It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed ...  
Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.  
Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.  
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality i...  
Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how i...  
Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a ...  
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into ...  
Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why ev...  
One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.  
Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.  
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by ...  
Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each...  
Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.  
Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walkin...  
Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.  
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.  
The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is wha...  
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.  
The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.  
The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosoph...  
There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.  
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagina...  
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.  
You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.  
You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread ...