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Marcel Proust
: All the mind’s activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality.
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How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.
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Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs.
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Doth the reality of sensible things consist in being perceived? or, is it something distinct from their being perceived, and that bears no relation to the mind?
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A mind too active is no mind at all.
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Like swift water an active mind never stagnates.
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Czesław Miłosz :
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As long as a society's best minds were occupied by theological questions, it was possible to speak of a given religion as the way of thinking of the whole social organism. All the matters which most actively concerned the people were referred to it and discussed in its terms. But that belongs to a dying era. We have come by easy stages to a lack of a common system of thought that could unite the peasant cutting his hay, the student poring over formal logic, and the mechanic working in an automobile factory. Out of this lack arises the painful sense of detachment or abstraction that oppresses the "creators of culture."
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There is no area in our minds reserved for superstition, such as the Greeks had in their mythology; and superstition, under cover of an abstract vocabulary, has revenged itself by invading the entire realm of thought. Our science is like a store filled with the most subtle intellectual devices for solving the most complex problems, and yet we are almost incapable of applying the elementary principles of rational thought. In every sphere, we seem to have lost the very elements of intelligence: the ideas of limit, measure, degree, proportion, relation, comparison, contingency, interdependence, interrelation of means and ends. To keep to the social level, our political universe is peopled exclusively by myths and monsters; all it contains is absolutes and abstract entities. This is illustrated by all the words of our political and social vocabulary: nation, security, capitalism, communism, fascism, order, authority, property, democracy. We never use them in phrases such as: There is democracy to the extent that... or: There is capitalism in so far as... The use of expressions like "to the extent that" is beyond our intellectual capacity. Each of these words seems to represent for us an absolute reality, unaffected by conditions, or an absolute objective, independent of methods of action, or an absolute evil; and at the same time we make all these words mean, successively or simultaneously, anything whatsoever. Our lives are lived, in actual fact, among changing, varying realities, subject to the casual play of external necessities, and modifying themselves according to specific conditions within specific limits; and yet we act and strive and sacrifice ourselves and others by reference to fixed and isolated abstractions which cannot possibly be related either to one another or to any concrete facts. In this so-called age of technicians, the only battles we know how to fight are battles against windmills. [p.222]
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Orison Swett Marden :
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It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.
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The subjective mind is entirely under the control of the objective mind. With the utmost fidelity it reproduces and works out to its final consequences whatever the objective mind impresses upon it.
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Marianne Williamson :
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Fill your mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.
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The blessing of an active mind, when it is in a good condition, is, that it not only employ itself, but is almost sure to be the means of giving wholesome employment to others.
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
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All the mind’s activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality.
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
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A cathedral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.
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Desire makes everything blossom possession makes everything wither and fade.
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Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
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