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THE TOUGH-MINDED. Empiricist (going by 'facts'), Sensationalistic, Materialistic, Pessimistic, Irreligious, Fatalistic, Pluralistic, Sceptical.
There is but one unconditional commandment, which is that we should seek incessantly, with fear and trembling, so to vote and to act as to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
Consciousness | Present | Scepticism | Truth |
The faith circle is so congruous with human nature that the only explanation of the veto that intellectualists pass upon it must be sought in the offensive character to them of the faiths of certain concrete persons.
Mind |
The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.
Consciousness | Hypothesis | Metaphysics | Psychology | Soul | Theology | Unity | Work |
A good way to rid one's self of a sense of discomfort is to do something. That uneasy, dissatisfied feeling is actual force vibrating out of order; it may be turned to practical account by giving proper expression to its creative character.
I too will go, remembering what I said to you, when any land, the first to which we came seemed that we sought, and set your hearts aflame, and all seemed won to you: but still I think, perchance years hence, the fount of life to drink, unless by some ill chance I first am slain. But boundless risk must pay for boundless gain.
Happy | Imagination | Man | Memory | Men | Mind | Past | Pleasure | Soul | Will | Wills | Work | Think |
Douglas Adams, fully Douglas Noel Adams
What are you after? Well, said Zaphod airily, It's partly the curiosity, partly a sense of adventure, but mostly I think it's the fame and the money.
White House pressrooms (no matter which political party is in charge) toss out a huge dump of bad news around 5:00 PM every Friday. Which as far as I can tell is at least five hours after the media corps has clocked out for a three-martini lunch with no intention of coming back to work until Monday.
The generality of friends puts us out of conceit with friendship; just as the generality of religious people puts us out of conceit with religion.
Mind |
Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
The happiness or unhappiness of men depends no less upon their dispositions than their fortunes.
Men | Mind | Unhappiness | Happiness |
We have more strength than will; and it is often merely for an excuse we say things are impossible.
If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!
Mind |
The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.
Mind |
We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.
It is given to few persons to keep this secret well. Those who lay down rules too often break them, and the safest we are able to give is to listen much, to speak little, and to say nothing that that will ever give ground or regret.
The moderation of fortunate people comes from the calm which good fortune gives to their tempers.
The accent of one's country dwells in the mind and in the heart as much as in the language.