The purpose of thinking is so our thoughts die instead of us.

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Not found in any of his writings. Possibly a paraphrase of Karl Popper in Epistemology Without A Knowing Subject (1967): "Scientists try to eliminate their false theories, they try to let them die in their stead. The believer—whether animal or man—perishes with his false beliefs."

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