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"But all propositions of logic say the same thing. That is, nothing."
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"Continuous denial of rational arguments represents a contempt of common sense."

"Many people have said to me that I'm a mystic. I find that a bit mysterious. I just use logic and common sense for my philosophies."

"But twice-two-makes-four is for all that a most insupportable thing. Twice-two-makes-four is, in my humble opinion, nothing but a piece of impudence. Twice-two-makes-four is a farcical, dressed-up fellow who stands across your path with arms akimbo and spits at you."

"It had to be a trick or you couldn't have done it."

"Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hundred and first."
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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.""

"I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment."

"Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again."

"Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness."

"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."

"Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing."
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