| Quotes |
Topic |
| Intuition | For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to a star, or you will just stay where you are. |
| Intuition | The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept. |
| Passion | Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot. |
| Religion | It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing. |
| All About Love | To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. |
| All About Love | And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it's always daisy-time. |
| Science | Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and believing you've witnessed the second coming. |
| Confusion | Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that. |
| Evil | This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten. |
| Inspirational | But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more. |
| Lovers | My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily. |
| Miscellaneous | Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that. - Selected Essays. |
| Miscellaneous | But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in. |
| Mob | Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions. |
| Peace | But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in. |
| Public Speaking | Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot. |
| Reason | Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer. |
| Trust | Never trust the teller. Trust the tale. |
| Life | Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. |
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