"Different languages, the same thoughts; servant to thoughts and their masters."

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“I imagined I was God for a millisecond and became speechless for a long time.”

“To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides.”

“Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.”

“I can see myself before myself—a being through dark scenery.”

“Possible impossibility emerges from an impossible possibility, or possibly, impossible possibility blooms from the impossibly possible impossibility.”

“Nothing is inanimate; what is the rest is our interpretation.”

Resonant Thoughts

"Since it is always the same person whose mind thinks, wills, and judges, the autonomous nature of these activities has created great difficulties. Reason’s inability to move the will, plus the fact th…"

— Hannah Arendt

Philosophy1906–1975

#mind

"When the mind has grasped the matter, words come like flowers at the call of spring."

— John Lancaster Spalding

Literature1840–1916

#mind

"Ideas about what happened after you died varied even among the priestly cast. Primitives were able to have more straightforward religions because they didn’t know any better. Once you knew even a litt…"

— Iain Banks

Literature1954–2013

#death