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"The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid."
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"If your mind is loaded with many burdens, you will not feel yourself empty even in an empty place!"

"The mind is an invisible net that can catch any event with its power of perception."

"You need to lose yourself and disappear in the depths of the repetitions? Find a coast and watch the repetitive waves! Soon your mind vanishes away and when your mind disappears you disappear!"

"Wit, after all, is the unfailing symptom of intelligence."

"Every man has a river on his mind: The River of Thoughts! But not every man has a holy river on his mind: The River of Right Thoughts!"

"One part of my consciousness serves only one realm."
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"It is quite futile to argue that man is small compared to the cosmos, for man was always small compared to the nearest tree."

"A puddle repeats infinity, and is full of light; nevertheless, if analyzed objectively, a puddle is a piece of dirty water spread very thin on mud."

"Job is an optimist. He shakes the pillars of the world and strikes insanely at the heavens; he lashes the stars, but it is not to silence them; it is to make them speak."

"A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end. Men read a Dickens story six times because they knew it so well."

"And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet."

"When modern sociologists talk of the necessity of accommodating one's self to the trend of the time, they forget that the trend of the time at its best consists entirely of people who will not accommodate themselves to anything. At its worst it consists of many millions of frightened creatures all accommodating themselves to a trend that is not there. And that is becoming more and more the situation...Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion."

"Once I thought it delightful and astonishing to find a present so big that it only went halfway into the stocking. Now I am delighted and astonished every morning to find a present so big that it takes two stockings to hold it, and then leaves a great deal outside; it is the large and preposterous present of myself."

"The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man."
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