The world is the totality of facts, not of things.
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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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Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
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Philosophy limits the thinkable and therefore the unthinkable.
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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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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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