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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There is sweet joy that comes to us that comes to us after sorrow.
Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.
Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
Failingto plan is planning to fail.
It is a good reader that makes a good book.
Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.
Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges
Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.
A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.
One person with a belief is a social power equal to nintynine who have only interest.
Cheat me in the price but not in the goods i purchase.
Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.