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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. – Aristotle

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations…

Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the…

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

All men desire to know. – Aristotle

All men desire to know.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. – Albert Einstein

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. – Ambrose Bierce

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not…

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher. – Ambrose Bierce

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

The only secure knowledge is that I exist. – Rene Descartes

The only secure knowledge is that I exist.

In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.

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