“Strictly speaking, the land does not exist; it is merely dehydrated sea.”
"All You Need To Know About Europe", Netherlands.
The Sanity Inspector (1974)
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“Strictly speaking I wasn’t there. Strictly speaking I believe I’ve never been anywhere.”
The End (1946)
Context: Normally I didn’t see a great deal. I didn’t hear a great deal either. I didn’t pay attention. Strictly speaking I wasn’t there. Strictly speaking I believe I’ve never been anywhere.
Source: Books, The End of Racism (1995), Ch. 6
“Strictly speaking, there are no "measurements" in the world, only correlations.”
Source: Quantum Reality - Beyond The New Physics, Chapter 9, Four Quantum Realities, p. 174
“There are, strictly speaking, no enlightened people, there is only enlightened activity.”
Quoted in Zen Millionaire : The Investor's Guide to the "Other Side" (2007) by Paul B. Farrell
Variant: Strictly speaking, there are no enlightened people, there is only enlightened activity.
Third Lecture, Critical Discussion of the Foundations of Probability, p. 80
Probability, Statistics And Truth - Second Revised English Edition - (1957)
“Does something truly speak to me from beyond the void, or is it merely my own desire?”
Source: The Void Captain's Tale (1983), Chapter 10 (p. 123)
“French: why does this language even exist? Everyone there speaks english anyway.”
Source: Princess in Waiting
“The term knowledge raises philosophical eyebrows (strictly speaking, it should be called belief).”
Source: Computation and cognition, 1984, p. 130