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My own mind is my own church.
Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be
done, or done over. He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked. If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of
exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea,
which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to
himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the
possession of everyone. Truth is older than any parchment. Here's to crime! Few people think more than two or three
times a year.
I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. No idea has ever been too errant to
become a creed. Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
You have put me in here a cub, but I will come out roaring like a lion, and I will make all hell howl. |
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Where the trail of evidence disappears, where intellect fails, one must
rely on imagination, on possibilities that are technically unprovable. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood
of patriots and tyrants.
Sacred cows make the best hamburger. It takes a lot of time to be a genius,
you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. No question is so difficult to answer
as that to which the answer is obvious. Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told
by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. Truth never envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which
it is at any time enveloped is the work of its antagonist. Failure is impossible. When a true genius appears in the world, you may
know him by this sign;
that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. If a man plant himself indomitable on his instincts, the world will come round
to him. Do me too. I don't want to be left out. What the world calls
originality is only an unaccustomed method of
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Vision:
the art of seeing things invisible. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected
thoughts. What is mind? Never matter. What is
matter? Never mind. The soul of God is
poured into the world through the thoughts of men. Never alter anything you write, especially if someone asks you to. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. If you think of it, it exists
somewhere. Our life is frittered away by detail...Simplify, Simplify. Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire;
you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will. To believe your own thought is true for all men, that is genius. When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth. Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts. |
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Man is only half himself, the other half is his expression. If one advances in the direction of his
dreams,
one will meet with success unexpected in common hours. Brain: an apparatus with which we think
we think. To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun,
the day is a perpetual morning. The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. Originality is nothing but judicious
imitation. Be isolated, be ignored, be attacked, be in doubt,
be frightened, but do not be silenced. No one travels so high as he who knows not where he is going. |
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