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Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.
In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.
Concentrating on the essentials. We will then be accomplishing the greatest possible results with the effort expended.
Concentrating on the essentials. We will then be accomplishing the greatest possible results with the effort expended.
If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no read more
If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given at all why a mirror or looking-glass should not understand; whereas it cannot so much as sensibly perceive those images which it receives and reflects to us.
Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive read more
Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.
Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.
Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.
The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by read more
The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything. Drops of water, by continually falling, hone their passage through the hardest of rocks but the hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar and leaves no trace behind.
No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and read more
No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every read more
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
