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“Dreams ought to produce no conviction whatever on philosophical minds. If we consider how many dreams are dreamt every night, and how many events occur every day, we shall no longer wonder at those accidental coincidences which ignorance mistakes for verifications.”

Ifs Mind Dream Night Mistake Wonder Events Produce Ignorance Ought Philosophical Conviction Every Night Coincidence Verification

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“The fundamental thing about human languages is that they can and should be used to describe something; and this something is, somehow, the world. To be constantly and almost exclusively interested in the medium - in spectacle-cleaning - is a result of a philosophical mistake.”

World Should Humans Used Language Results Mistake Philosophical Fundamentals Mediums Cleaning Human Language

Author:Karl Popper

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”

Life Would Be Mistake Music Teaching Philosophical Hard Times Loving Life Inspirational Music Without Music Music Life

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”

Source: Epigrams and Aphorisms

“Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.”

Men Decision Mistake Failure Philosophical Errors Stupidity Idiot Making Mistakes Persist My Mistakes Same Mistakes I Make Mistakes We All Make Mistakes Making The Same Mistakes Foolish Mistakes

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.”

Persons Nature Mistake Ignorance Fool Philosophical Errors Persevere

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity”

Mistake Path Genius Philosophical Privilege Impunity Great Mistakes New Paths True Genius

Author:Lewis Carroll

“Mistakes are joyful, truth infernal.”

Mistake Philosophical Joyful

Book:Carnets: 1942-1951

Source: Carnets: 1942-1951

“Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.”

Looks Certain Mistake Logic Philosophical Making Mistakes

Book:Tractatus Logico Philosophicus

Source: Tractatus Logico Philosophicus

“In my own version of the idea of 'what art wants,' the end and fulfillment of the history of art is the philosophical understanding of what art is, an understanding that is achieved in the way that understanding in each of our lives is achieved, namely, from the mistakes we make, the false paths we follow, the false images we have come to abandon until we learn wherein our limits consist, and then how to live within those limits.”

Way Want Art Ideas Ends Life Is Understanding My Own Mistake Path Our Lives Limits Art Is Philosophical Versions Fulfillment Abandon

Author:Arthur Danto