"The aspects of a thing that are most important to us are hidden to us because of their simplicity and familiarity."
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"Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me."
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"We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming."
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"One can mistrust one's own senses, but not one's own belief."
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"The world is made up of facts, not things."
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"What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms?"
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"The wish precedes the event, the will accompanies it."
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"Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it."
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"Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing."
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"Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony."
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"An inner process stands in need of outward criteria."
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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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"Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult 'What is that?"
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"To think that you are not following a rule is to follow a rule."
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"If anyone is unwilling to descend into himself, because this is too painful, he will remain superficial in his writing. . . If I perform to myself, then it’s this that the style expresses. And then the style cannot be my own. If you are unwilling to know what you are, your writing is a form of deceit."
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"One must always be prepared to learn something totally new."
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"The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs to every temptation and the good one resists it."
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"The truth can be spoken only by someone who is already at home in it; not by someone who still lives in untruthfulness, and does no more than reach out towards it from within untruthfulness."
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"For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life. It is not a fact in the world."
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"Ambition is the death of thought."
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