"Don't ask what it means, but rather how it is used."
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"What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within."
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"In order to draw a limit to thinking, we should have to think both sides of this limit."
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"You might say that certain words are only pegs to hang intonations on."
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"It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise."
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"A confession has to be part of your new life."
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"What cannot be imagined cannot even be talked about."
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"How hard I find it to see what is right in front of my eyes!"
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"When we think about the future of the world, we always have in mind its being where it would be if it continued to move as we see it moving now. We do not realize that it moves not in a straight line and that its direction changes constantly."
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"Genius is talent exercised with courage."
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"You can't hear God speak to someone else, you can hear him only when you are being addressed."
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"A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion."
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"Nothing is more important than the formation of fictional concepts, which teach us at last to understand our own."
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"What Copernicus really achieved was not the discovery of a true theory but of a fertile new point of view."
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"There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical."
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"To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life. To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter. To believe in God means to see that life has a meaning."
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"The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language."
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"That the world is, is the mystical."
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"Belief in the causal nexus is superstition."
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"The face is the soul of the body."
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