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4485 Philosopher Quotes

Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.

Attitude Being Celebrated Ceremony
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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.

Again Awaken Him Man
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There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.
Reap Remarks Sow That
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Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.
Greatest May Our Very
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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.

Any Comparison Consciousness Exhibition
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A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.

Discussion Fresh Ground Like
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Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

Imagination Keyboard Like Note
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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.

Dangerous Die Laurels Off
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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.'

Across Chapter Come Culture
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Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

Belongs Death Duration Eternal
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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Acknowledgement Based End In The End
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It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.

Characteristic Fewer How Improved
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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

How Later Makes Often
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The world is the totality of facts, not of things.
Facts Things Totality World
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One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'

Language Misleading Most Our
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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.

Anything Correct Deeper Does
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Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.

Body Doctrine Logic Transcendental
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The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.

Behavior Common Interpret Language
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What can be shown, cannot be said.
Cannot Said Shown What
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What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

Aim Fly Out Philosophy
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When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.

Frightened Never Then Truth
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It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.

Hypothesis Know Means Rise
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A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.

About Form Know Philosophical
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Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.

Contradictions Nothing Say Show
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Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.

After Cannot Certain Itself
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You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.

Concept Language Learned Pain
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To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
Actually Only Pretend Pretended
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As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.

Entered Language Scene Soon
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Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution.

Certain Could Institution Longer
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Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology.

Carries Discourse Even Every
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Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.
Arranged Culture Everything Way
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I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles.

Argument Became Between Extra
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I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.

Acceptable Escape Everything I Think
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I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner.

Believe Desire I Think Idioms
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I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior.

After Always Ashamed Back
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I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his political role according to the screenplay that you are familiar with and whose heritage deserves to be questioned.

According Always Deserves Familiar
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I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.

Being Difficult Give Just
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I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.

African Also Bad Even
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If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.

Argued Because Carrying Competent
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In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it.

Algeria Begun Certain Dream
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In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a very great number of relays, with the shared responsibility of these relays.

Accumulate Great Implicit Level
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My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible.

Alive Am Believe Claim
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No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.

Angry Foreign Foreign Language Gets
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Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school.

Anxiety Cannot Chest Cross
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The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown.

Any Breakdown Case Edge
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The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound.

Birth Chance Circle Life
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The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.

Does Dominant Even First
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These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate.

Above Case Critics Cult
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Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides.

Decide Gaze Like Look
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Who ever said that one was born just once?

Born Ever Just Once
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