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All that the conscious ego can do is to formulate wishes, which are then carried out by forces which it controls very little and understands not at all.
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All that the conscious ego can do is to formulate wishes, which are then carried out by forces which it controls very little and understands not at all.
Keep moving. Let nothing slow you up. Move on with dignity and honor and respectability.
Optimism. Have it. There is always time to cry later.
Variety is the spice of life only when it is not for its own sake.
With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.
It is with theories as with wells: you may see to the bottom of the deepest if there be any water there, while another shall pass for wondrous profound when 'tis merely shallow, dark, and empty.
It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgment by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.
There is no good or evil: only power and those too weak to seek it.
The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.
"Faith" means the will to avoid knowing what is true.