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Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
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A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.
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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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Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
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A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.
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Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor 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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A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
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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: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity."
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