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"As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses."

"It is easy to destroy a book, but an idea once implanted has roots no man can utterly destroy."

"Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination."

"In doing everything, from coming up with the ideas and putting them on paper till doing the final edits, you are always thinking the next three steps, you're always thinking what next, what next, what next?"
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"If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration, but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present."

"There is a truth in Schopenhauer's view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosophy, with a beginning and end, is a sort of contradiction. ... In philosophy matters are not simple enough for us to say 'Let's get a rough idea', for we do not know the country except by knowing the connections between the roads."

"Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical."

"Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it."

"The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long."

"If you and I are to live religious lives, it mustn't be that we talk a lot about religion, but that our manner of life is different. It is my belief that only if you try to be helpful to other people will you in the end find your way to God."
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