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Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.

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William H. Gass

As a teacher, it's a great help to be teaching philosophical systems you don't believe. You can actually do a better job of presenting them if you leave your beliefs at the door.

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Words are the supreme objects. They are minded things.

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The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.

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Words [are] more beautiful than a found fall leaf.

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I was struck by the way in which meanings are historically attached to words: it is so accidental, so remote, so twisted. A word is like a schoolgirl's room--a complete mess--so the great thing is to make out a way of seeing it all as ordered, as right, as inferred and following.

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Some people say their life is full of darkness and I wonder why they don't just try and switch the lights on.

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