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A hero looks death in the face, real death, not just the image of death. Behaving honourably in a crisis doesn't mean being able to act the part of a hero well, as in the theatre, it means being able to look death itself in the eye.
For an actor may play lots of different roles, but at the end of it all he himself, the human being, is the one who has to die.
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If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?
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A teacher who can show good, or indeed astounding results while he is teaching, is still not on that account a good teacher, for it may be that, while his pupils are under his immediate influence, he raises them to a level which is not natural to them, without developing their own capacities for work at this level, so that they immediately decline again once the teacher leaves the schoolroom.
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You could attach prices to ideas. Some cost a lot some little. … And how do you pay for ideas? I believe: with courage.
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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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If a false thought is so much as expressed boldly and clearly, a great deal has already been gained.
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Animals come when their names are called. Just like human beings.
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Humour is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humour was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.
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I would really like to slow down the speed of reading with continual punctuation marks. For I would like to be read slowly. (As I myself read.)
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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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Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world.
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One might say: art shows us the miracles of nature. It is based on the concept of the miracles of nature.
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Freud's fanciful pseudo-explanations (precisely because they are brilliant) perform a disservice.
(Now any ass has these pictures available to use in "explaining" symptoms of an illness.
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It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.
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I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of possible buildings.
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Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.
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You can't be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth.
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I believe that one of the things Christianity says is that sound doctrines are all useless. That you have to change your life. (Or the direction of your life.)
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If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
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You could attach prices to thoughts. Some cost a lot, some a little. And how does one pay for thoughts? The answer, I think, is: with courage.
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You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.
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In philosophy the race is to the one who can run slowest—the one who crosses the finish line last.
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No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's been offended. Nobody likes being confronted by a wounded spaniel. Remember that. It is much easier patiently - and tolerantly - to avoid the person you have injured than to approach him as a friend. You need courage for that.
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If you want to go down deep you do not need to travel far; indeed, you don't have to leave your most immediate and familiar surroundings.
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Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.
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Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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Born:
April 26, 1889
Died:
April 29, 1951
(aged 62)
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