A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.
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Man has to awaken to wonder and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
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It is quite impossible for a proposition to state that it itself is true.
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You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded.
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Schiller writes in a letter [to Goethe, 17 December 1795] of a'poetic mood'. I think I know what he means, I think I am familiar with it myself. It is the mood of receptivity to nature and one in which one's thoughts seem as vivid as nature itself.
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This remark provides the key to the problem, how much truth there is in solipsism. For what the solipsist means is quite correct; only it cannot be said, but makes itself manifest. The world is my world: this is manifest in the fact that the limits of language (of that language which alone I understand) mean the limits of my world.
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The aim of philosophy is to erect a wall at the point where language stops anyway.
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The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.
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Reading the Socratic dialogues one has the feeling: what a frightful waste of time! What's the point of these arguments that prove nothing and clarify nothing?
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Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.
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