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The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.


Stephen Cole Kleene
The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.
Karl Jaspers
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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.


Martin Heidegger
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Never answer a question from a farmer.


Hubert H. Humphrey
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Life is a question without a standard answer.


Li Shufu
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That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer.


Anthony Eden
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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?


Lily Tomlin
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Try to guess my answer to that question, however temptingly you pose it.


Mario Monti
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It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.
E. T. Bell
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Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.
John Tukey
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That's the $64,000 question. And I would love to tell you there was an answer.


Hal Sutton
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Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.


Albert Camus
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It's a very good question, very direct, and I'm not going to answer it.


George H. W. Bush
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The question of whether there exists a supernatural creator, a God, is one of the most important that we have to answer. I think that it is a scientific question. My answer is no.
Richard Dawkins
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The great question of our time is, 'Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?'
Billy Graham
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Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.
Brian Greene
People into hard sciences, neurophysiology, often ignore a core philosophical question: 'What is the relationship between our unique, inner experience of conscious awareness and material substance?' The answer is: We don't know, and some people are so terrified to say, 'I don't know.'
Raymond Moody
But I was thinking of a way To multiply by ten, And always, in the answer, get The question back again.
Lewis Carroll
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It seems to me that the way to remove people's cynicism is, when asked a straight question, to give a straight answer.
Jeremy Paxman
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