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- 'Imagine a person whose memory could not retain what the word 'pain' meant-so that he constantly called different things by that name-but nevertheless used the…
- Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
- Where does our investigation get its importance from, since it seems only to destroy everything interesting, that is, all that is great and important? (As…
- For a large class of cases -- though not for all -- in which we employ the word ''meaning'' it can be defined thus: the…
- We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place.
- If one understands eternity as timelessness, and not as an unending timespan, then whoever lives in the present lives for all time.
- Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things…
- The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
- Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
- 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:…
- For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist. If a question can be put at…
- At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.
- We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.
- It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to…
- Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly. Ludwig Wittgenstein
- The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to notice something because…
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- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle