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Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
Thought control, like birth control, is best undertaken as long as possible before the fact. Many grown-ups will obstinately persist, read more
Thought control, like birth control, is best undertaken as long as possible before the fact. Many grown-ups will obstinately persist, if only now and then, in composing small strings of sentences in their heads and achieving at least momentary logic. This probably cannot be prevented, but we have learned how to minimize the consequences by arranging that such grown-ups will be unable to pursue that logic very far. If they were at home in the technology of writing, there's no telling how much social disorder they would cause by thinking things out at length.Our schools have chosen to cut this danger off as close to the root as possible, thus taking measures to preclude not only the birth of thought but its conception. They give the pill to even the youngest children, but just to be on the safe side, they give it to everybody else, too, especially all would-be schoolteachers.
There is no other way to judge the work of a mind except through its words.
There is no other way to judge the work of a mind except through its words.
Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.
Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.
The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
In matters of intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard for any other consideration.
In matters of intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard for any other consideration.
If we do not believe in ourselves- neither in our efficacy nor in our goodness- the universe is a frightening read more
If we do not believe in ourselves- neither in our efficacy nor in our goodness- the universe is a frightening place.
