• When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.

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  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  MathematicianGerman1777 · 18th century

  3.6 · 43 votes · 153 reads

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• When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  4.3 · 54 votes · 41 reads

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• When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.

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  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  MathematicianGerman1777 · 18th century

  3.1 · 6 votes · 36 reads

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• While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how it could have been that the world should have so long consented to give reputation to such nonsense as th

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  4.1 · 10 votes · 29 reads

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• Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended.

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  Herman Melville

  WriterAmerican1819 · 19th century

  4.9 · 20 votes · 174 reads

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• Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?

  

  Lewis Carroll

  NovelistEnglish1832 · 19th century

  4.7 · 43 votes · 50 reads

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