It Is Not Enough To Have A Good Mind The Main

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.

The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking..

If the mind is willing, the flesh could go on and on without many things.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.

“Thinking is man’s only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed. And his basic vice, the source of all his evils, is that nameless act which all of you practice, but struggle never to admit: the act of blanking out, the willful suspension of one’s consciousness, the refusal to think - not blindness, but the refusal to see; not ignorance, but the refusal to know. It is the act of unfocusing your mind and inducing an inner fog to escape the responsibility of judgment - on the unstated premise that a thing will not exist if only you refuse to identify it, that A will not be A so long as you do not pronounce the verdict ‘It is.”