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Our minds can work for us or against us at any given moment. We can learn to accept and live with the natural psychological laws that govern us, understanding how to flow with life rather than struggle against it. We can return to our natural state of contentment.
Author: Richard Carlson
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You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
Author: W. Clement Stone
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Our knowledge and our ability to handle our problems progress through the open conflict of ideas, through the tests of phenomenological adequacy, inner consistency, and practical-moral consequences. Reason may err, but it can be moral. If we must err, let it be on the side of our creativity, our freedom, our betterment.
Author: Rudolph Rummel
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...aesthetic values are changed under the influence of sexual emotion; from the lover's point of view many things are beautiful which are unbeautiful from the point of view of him who is not a lover, and the greater the degree to which the lover is swayed by his passion the greater the extent to which his normal aesthetic standard is liable to be modified.
Author: Havelock Ellis
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The first step in freeing yourself from social restrictions is the realization that there is no such thing as a "safe" code of conduct - one that would earn everyone's approval. Your actions can always be condemned by someone - for being too bold or too apathetic, for being too conformist or too nonconformist, for being too liberal or too conservative. So it's necessary to decide whose approval is important to you.
Author: Harry Browne
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Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, deprecating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
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The largely objective character of beauty is further indicated by the fact that to a considerable extent beauty is the expression of health. A well and harmoniously developed body, tense muscles, an elastic and finely toned skin, bright eyes, grace and animation of carriage- all these things which are essential to beauty are the conditions of health.
Author: Havelock Ellis
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There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.
Author: Laurence Sterne
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An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
Author: Charles Kettering
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Dare to be wrong and to dream.
Author: Friedrich Von Schiller
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The mentality of an army on the march is merely so much delayed adolescence; it remains persistently, incorrigibly and notoriously infantile.
Author: Albert Jay Nock
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Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small steps.
Author: David Lloyd George
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If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.
Author: S.i. Hayakawa
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The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them.
Author: Joseph Henry
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...it is curiosity, initiative, originality, and the ruthless application of honesty that count in research- much more than feats of logic and memory alone.
Author: Julian Huxley
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When scientific doctrines are mixed up with religious tenets, the same lifeless dogmatism will commonly benumb them both.
Author: Theodore Gomperz
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Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
Author: Charles Fisher
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The envious man thinks that if his neighbor breaks a leg, he will be able to walk better himself.
Author: Helmut Schoeck
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The more kindness shown to an envious man, the worse he becomes.
Author: Helmut Schoeck
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
Author: Simone Weil
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The world's greatest thinkers have often been amateurs; for high thinking is the outcome of fine and independent living, and for that a professional chair offers no special opportunities.
Author: Havelock Ellis
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Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven.
Author: Mary Baker Eddy
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It is by becoming increasingly complex that the self might be said to grow.
Author: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful to truth must make himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable renascent errors.
Author: Charles Peguy
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Ideals are very often formed in the effort to escape from the hard task of dealing with facts, which is the function of science and art. There is no process by which to reach an ideal. There are no tests by which to verify it. It is therefore impossible to frame a proposition about an ideal which can be proved or disproved. It follows that the use of ideals is to be strictly limited to proper cases, and that the attempt to use ideals in social discussion does not deserve serious consideration.
Author: William Graham Sumner
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...ideas have a tendency to live lives of their own, and having become a part of tradition, they are very difficult to root out. When summarized in a few neat words or phrases, these gems of wisdom become substitutes for thought, and gradually take on much of the status of revealed truth. Occasionally, some iconoclast sees fit to challenge one of them, and a brief flurry ensues, after which things go on about as before. It is easy to think of plenty of ideas that are passing, if they have not already passed, beyond the stage of effective discussion.
Author: Richard V. Clemence
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The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
Author: Alfred Whitney Griswold
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The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it.
Author: Henry Hazlitt
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Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
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A kiss to or from a woman we love is a far too delicate pledge of affection to bear the gaze of strangers.
Author: Christopher Nyrop
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Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.
Author: Richard Francis Burton
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We have no assurance that half-truth will make us free.
Author: Roger J. Williams
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If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
Author: Richard Mitchell
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Laugh and the world laughs with you; snore and you sleep alone.
Author: Anthony Burgess
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The mind cannot foresee its own advance.
Author: F.a. Hayek
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There is no other way to judge the work of a mind except through its words.
Author: Richard Mitchell
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Collective judgement of new ideas is so often wrong that it is arguable that progress depends on individuals being free to back their own judgement despite collective disapproval.
Author: W.a. Lewis
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Opposition to the truth is inevitable, especially if it takes the form of a new idea, but the degree of resistance can be diminished- by giving thought not only to the aim but to the method of approach. Avoid a frontal attack on a long established position; instead, seek to turn it by flank movement, so that a more penetrable side is exposed to the thrust of truth. But, in any such indirect approach, take care not to diverge from the truth- for nothing is more fatal to its real advancement than to lapse into untruth.
Author: B.h. Liddell Hart
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Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.
Author: Theodor Reik
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A great man is he who has not lost the heart of a child.
Author: Mencius
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It is characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.
Author: Robert Lindner
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The great questions are those an intelligent child asks and, getting no answers, stops asking.
Author: George Wald
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Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.
Author: Lord Halifax
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Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
Author: Charles Mackay
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Reason is the main resource of man in his struggle for survival.
Author: Ludwig Von Mises
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Who speaks reason to his fellow man bestows it upon them.
Author: Richard Mitchell
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Because they know not the forces of nature, and in order that they may have comrades in their ignorance, they suffer not that others should search out anything, and would have us believe like rustics and ask no reason...But we ask in all things a reason must be sought.
Author: William Of Conches
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He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Author: William Drummond
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Since the social victim has been oppressed by society, he comes to feel that his individual life will be improved more by changes in society than by his own initiative. Without realizing it, he makes society rather than himself the agent of change. The power he finds in his victimization may lead him to collective action against society, but it also encourages passivity within the sphere of his personal life.
Author: Shelby Steele
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A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to "hunger and thirst" after it is often merely a symptom of spiritual diabetes.
Author: C. D. Broad
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