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Most people do not erode their self-esteem over big issues but over small ones, little acts of betra...

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We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as th...

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Now we’ve a real intellectual impasse. Our reason, which is supposed to make things more intelligibl...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the proces...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame.

As many critics of religion have pointed out, the notion of a creator poses an immediate problem of ...

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As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought...

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Sigmund FreudGroup Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego

Computerized medical records will enable statistical analysis to be used to determine which treatmen...

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All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.

We see it [the as-yet unseen, probable new planet, Neptune] as Columbus saw America from the coast o...

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Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such an authority over us that we...

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The genius of a composer is found in the notes of his music; but analyzing the notes will not reveal...

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Anthony de MelloAwakening: Conversations with the Masters

Secret elisions within families are suddenly revealed by self-execution, and just as quickly sheeted...

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To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to piece...

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Arthur Conan DoyleThe Adventure of the Devil's Foot

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate fou...

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A procession of the damned: By the damned I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data th...

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Charles FortThe Book of the Damned

Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.

And as for the vague something --- was it a sinister or a sorrowful, a designing or a desponding exp...

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If you've spent any time trolling the blogosphere, you've probably noticed a peculiar literary trend...

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The Ph.D is one of the chosen who know that some things can never be fathomed, no matter how hard yo...

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Truth suffers from too much analysis.

I believe that I have not been fair to you and that, as a result, I must have led you around in circ...

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Analysis does not transform consciousness.

In the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all b...

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Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a ver...

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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.