Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
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What can be shown, cannot be said.
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What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.
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The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.
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When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.
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