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The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

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If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.

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The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

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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.

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A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.

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Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.

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

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I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

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A confession has to be part of your new life.

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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

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Biography

Nationality: Austrian

Type: Philosopher

Born: April 26th, 1889

Died: April 29th, 1951

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