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“The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.”
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“It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him.”
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“Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.”
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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.”
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“I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy.”
― On Certainty
― On Certainty
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