The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.
We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.
The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can understand something as to how the motives that issue from this obscurity are generated, we can hardly hope to foresee or control them.
By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of mind into the keeping of another, of whose attitude you can never be certain. You have a new source of doubt and apprehension.
A person of definite character and purpose who comprehends our way of thought is sure to exert power over us. He cannot altogether be resisted because, if he understands us, he can make us understand him, through the word, the look, or other symbol . .
One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.
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