The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.The remarkable thing is that the cessation of the inner dialogue marks also the end of our concern with the world around us. It is as if we noted the world and think about it only when we have to report it to ourselves.
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From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step.
From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step.
Men never do evil so fully and so happily as when they do it for conscience's sake.
Men never do evil so fully and so happily as when they do it for conscience's sake.
Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you read more
Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
When scientific doctrines are mixed up with religious tenets, the same lifeless dogmatism will commonly benumb them both.
When scientific doctrines are mixed up with religious tenets, the same lifeless dogmatism will commonly benumb them both.
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds.
What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds.
To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
To be fully alive is to feel that everything is possible.
The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather read more
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.
