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Obscurity is the realm of error.


Luc de Clapiers
Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home.
Shelby Foote
Tags: Home Our Love
To my mind, the best SF addresses itself to problems of the here and now, or even to problems which have never been solved and never will be solved - I'm thinking of Philip K. Dick's work here, dealing with questions of reality, for example.
John Sladek
Tags: Work Best Been
When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.
Abdullah Ibrahim
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If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
Zig Ziglar
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Everything we do these days - our lust for ever more comfort, pleasure, and distraction, our refusal to engage with the mandates of reality, our fidelity to cults of technology and limitless growth, our narcissistic national exceptionalism - all of this propels us toward the realm where souls abandon all hope.
James Howard Kunstler
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Samuel Johnson
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When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.


Plato
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Confess and be hanged.


Christopher Marlowe
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When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.
Octavio Paz
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The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.


Benjamin Tucker
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I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.


Georges Bataille
There's something about the idea of writing, and thinking about writing as a form of prayer - the way as a writer you call out into the world and throw your words into the world. You're not praying to a god, but you're almost conjuring a reader to arrive. That's what books do: they're an invitation to readers.
Ruth Ozeki
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The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.


Phaedrus
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Fame is a mind - a way of thinking about things. It's all in your mind.


Reba McEntire
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To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.


Bruce Lee
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I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.


Fanny Burney
Tags: Am I Am Nothing
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Every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God.


John Piper
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Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.


Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.


Marcus Tullius Cicero
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