The real purpose

The real purpose
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking
  

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Youdon't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there. Anonymous Agood deal is a state of mind.
Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.
Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.
The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.
Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Our longingfor understandingis Eternal.
He understands badly who listens badly.
No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.
It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
In all superstitions wise men follow fools.
It seemedrather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, weoften suffer from a shortage of listeners.