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  1. 370. But more correctly: The fact that I use the word 'hand' and all the other words in my sentence without a second thought, indeed that I…
  2. Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again. (p. 5e)
  3. 310. A pupil and a teacher. The pupil will not let anything be explained to him, for he continually interrupts with doubts, for instance as…
  4. If someone is merely ahead of his time, it will catch up to him one day. (p. 8e)
  5. 253. At the core of all well-founded belief, lies belief that is unfounded.
  6. Reading the Socratic dialogues one has the feeling: what a frightful waste of time! What's the point of these arguments that prove nothing …
  7. 225. What I hold fast to is not one proposition but a nest of propositions.
  8. I read: 'philosophers are no nearer to the meaning of 'Reality' than Plato got,...'. What a strange situation. How extraordinary that Plato…

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