Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.
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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity read more
A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.
We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should read more
We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.
There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.
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We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.
Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.
Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.
Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.
It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
