If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.
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Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.Ludwig Wittgenstein
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The world is independent of my will.
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It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him.
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Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.
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