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"The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests."
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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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"Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality."
"The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important."
"Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten."
"The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests."
"Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does; or that his soul might die without his knowing it?"
"Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment."
"Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture."
"I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off."
"It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own."
"Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too."
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