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"An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it."
— Wittgenstein, Ludwig

tags: philosophers, philosophy, religion, wittgenstein

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"The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and see simple distinctions - simple once they are stated, vastly difficult before. If we are to follow them we too must be childishly simple in our questions - and maturely wise in our replies."
— Mortimer J. Adler (How to Read a Book)

tags: books, children, curiosity, knowledge, philosophers, philosophy

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"It has been a long time since philosophers have read men’s souls. It is not their task, we are told. Perhaps. But we must not be surprised if they no longer matter much to us."
— Émile Michel Cioran (The Trouble With Being Born)

tags: philosophers

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" A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: consistency, foolish, little, minds, philosophers

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"Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity."
— Samuel Beckett

tags: philosophers, poets

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"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."
— WITTGENSTEIN

tags: philosophers, philosophy, wittgenstein

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"And usually [the philosopher] philosophizes either in order to resign himself to life, or to seek some finality in it, or to distract himself and forget his griefs, or for pastime and amusement."
— Miguel de Unamuno (Tragic Sense of Life)

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"So soon as I hear that such or such a man gives himself out for a philosopher, I conclude that, like the dyspeptic old woman, he must have "broken his digester.""
— Herman Melville (Moby Dick)

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