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“It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”
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“There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.”
― Life on the Mississippi
― Life on the Mississippi
“Words do not express thoughts very well; every thing immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom of one man seems nonsense to another.”
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“Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.”
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“My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at because the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.”
― The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
― The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
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