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"Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly."
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"The point of good writing is knowing when to stop."

"Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition- and I learnt something there. In the course of an excavation, when something comes up out of the ground, evEryThing is cleared away very carefully all around it. You take away the loose earth, and you scare here and there with a knife until finally your object is there, all alone, ready to be drawn and photographed with no extraneous matter confusing it. That is what I have been seeking TO do- clear away the extraneous matter so that we can see the truth-the naked shining truth."

"Brighten your picture! Refuse to be blurred, agree to be bright!"

"Listen to all, believe few, count on some, but trust none."

"You need to see time correctly for you not to waste your life."

"A solid answer to everything is not necessary. Blurry concepts influence one to focus, but postulated clarity influences arrogance."

"Until you are clear nothing will be. The moment you are clear everything will be."
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"Put a man in the wrong atmosphere and nothing will function as it should. He will seem unhealthy in every part. Put him back into his proper element and everything will blossom and look healthy. But if he is not in his right element, what then? Well, then he just has to make the best of appearing before the world as a cripple."

"Roughly speaking: to say of two things that they are identical is nonsense, and to say of one thing that it is identical with itself is to say nothing."

"It used to be said that God could create anything except what would be contrary to the laws of logic. The truth is that we could not say what an 'illogical' world would look like."

"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."

"The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language."
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