If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.
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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.Ludwig Wittgenstein
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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Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
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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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The world is independent of my will.
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The face is the soul of the body.
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