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"The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble."
"We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot."
"There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point."
"The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds."
"Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction."
"A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory."
"So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational."
"As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it."
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