"Cease trying to work everything out with your minds, it will get you nowhere."
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"How should the best parts of psychology and economics interrelate in an enlightened economist's mind?... I think that these behavioral economics...or economists are probably the ones that are bending them in the correct direction. I don't think it's going to be that hard to bend economics a little to accommodate what's right in psychology."
"The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind."
"In order to be a part of the totalitarian mind-set, it is not necessary to wear a uniform or carry a club or a whip. It is only necessary to wish for your own subjection, and to delight in the subjection of others."
"First there must be order and harmony within your own mind."
"Part of the popularity with Louis Farrakhan has less to do with the content of his message and more to do with the form that he portrays himself - as being a free, black person who speaks what is on his mind with boldness and fearlessness. Who is willing to pay the consequences."
"I don't mind being 65, but nobody is gonna tell me to come in at 5:30 to have the early bird special."
"People looking up at her--at her smooth pretty vivacious face--had no way of knowing about the painfully articulated resolves formulating in her mind."
"Access to the outside world is preventing more censorship. I do think information flow is happening in China. .. There's no doubt in my mind that it's been a huge plus."
"Heavenly rest will be so refreshing that we will never feel that exhaustion of mind and body we so frequently experience now. I'm really looking forward to that."
"Understand that you dont have all the answers, you just have to start somewhere and keep an open mind."
"Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical."
"The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted."
"God has given us evidence sufficiently clear to convince those with an open heart and mind."
"God only pours out his light into the mind after having subdued the rebellion of the will by an altogether heavenly gentleness which charms and wins it."
"I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds."
"Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed."
"I havent had a single thought for 26 years. I have only understanding. Its somewhat complicated to understand that. Ive hardly ever spoken about it. Youre in a state of total peace of mind. A kind of nirvana."
"The apparent craziness of the world, like everything else, is a gift that we can use to set our minds free."
"One's life is an act with no actor, and thus it has always been recognized that the insane man that has lost his mind is a parody of the sage who has transcended his ego. If one is paranoid, the other is metanoid."