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4296 E George Bernard Shaw The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.
Unconscious
Unconscious
3578 E Anonymous If you have to deal with a bad person, the first thing you have to do is not to improve him, but to improve yourself.
Good and Evil
Good and Evil
7009 E Ron Hubbard If you want to get rich, invent a religion,
Religion
Religion
8541 E Mark Twain The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
Reading
Reading
2477 E Bill Cosby Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home
Man & Animals
Man & Animals
14597 E William James The function of the nervous system is to bring each part into harmonious co-operation with every other.
Mind
Mind
14593 E Viktor Frankl When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
Changing
Changing
11334 E Heinz von Foerster What we need now is the description of the “describer” or, in other words, we need a theory of the observer.
Knowledge
Knowledge
7936 E Antonio Damasio Interestingly enough, not all feelings result from the body's reaction to external stimuli. Sometimes changes are purely simulated in the brain maps.
Mind
Mind
4118 E Oscar Wilde One should always be in love; that is the reason one should never marry.
Marriage
Marriage
2887 E Voltaire If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
Religion
Religion
16918 E Ludwig Wittgenstein We use judgements as principlesof judegement.
Judging
Judging
7754 E William James It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
8545 E Mark Twain I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
Death
Death
4400 E Johann W. von Goethe Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Knowledge
Knowledge
3721 E Edith Wharton There are two ways of spreading the light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Knowledge
Knowledge
4542 E Ella Fitzgerald It isn't where you came from; it's where you're going that counts.
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
7933 E Joseph LeDoux Everything we think and feel (and keep thinking and feeling) creates, deep within, the brain we have.
Mind
Mind
13074 E Daniel Dennett Religion, like love and music, is natural. But so are smoking, war, and death.
Religion
Religion
2799 E Frank Zappa Without deviation, progress is not possible.
Progress
Progress