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We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This need not have been so. We...more

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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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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.

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There is a truth in Schopenhauer’s view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosophy, with a beginning and end, is a sort of contradi...more

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We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.