Echoes

In the great chain of causes and effects, no single fact can be considered in isolation.

Prefer the specific to the general, the definite to the vague, the concrete to the abstract.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

You've got to have models in your head. And you've got to array your experience — both vicarious and direct — on this latticework of models.

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

Men are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Everything is interaction and reciprocal.

My experience is what I agree to attend to.

Man is what he believes.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

It is not truth that makes man great, but man that makes truth great.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.

I felt before I thought: this is the common lot of humanity.

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.