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I saw a Divine Being. I'm afraid I'm going to have to revise all my various books and opinions.

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The criterion which we use to test the genuineness of apparent statements of fact is the criterion of verifiability.

Language, Truth, and Logic (1936)

"I exist" does not follow from "there is a thought now."

Language, Truth, and Logic (1936)

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

Humanist Outlook (1968)

The principles of logic and mathematics are true simply because we never allow them to be anything else.

Language, Truth, and Logic (1936)

The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful.

Language, Truth, and Logic (1936)

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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