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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You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.
Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.
There is much more learning than knowing in the world.
The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.
Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?
Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.
Before youbuild a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.
Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.
If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.
The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.
If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.