“I must plunge into the water of doubt again and again.”

Source: 1930s-1951, Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951 (1993), Ch. 7 : Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough, p. 119

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Austrian-British philosopher 1889–1951

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