“A man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”
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Andrew Carnegie34
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“Crowd mentality is a kind of simultaneous psychosis which may take possession of any group.”
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Paracelsus the Physician (1942)
Context: No one can flatter himself that he is immune to the spirit of his own epoch, or even that he possesses a full understanding of it. Irrespective of our conscious convictions, each one of us, without exception, being a particle of the general mass, is somewhere attached to, colored by, or even undermined by the spirit which goes through the mass. Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.
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“A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.”
O. Henry (1862–1910) American short story writer
“Makes the Whole World Kin,” Sixes and Sevens (1911)
“You must take it; I cannot live with anything in my possession that is not mine.”
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As quoted in The New York Times http://www.granthomepage.com/intlongstreet.htm (24 July 1885).
Barry Long (1926–2003) Australian spiritual teacher and writer
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
Context: You think: you become that thought. And consciousness, or the state of pure awareness, is lost. The highest knowledge man can possess is that which is true in his own experience. If his experience is limited, so is his knowledge and he behaves accordingly.
Philibert de l'Orme (1514–1570) French architect of the Renaissance.
Livre d'architecture as quoted by Edward Fenton, "Messer Philibert Delorme" The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin Vol. 13, No. 4, Dec., 1954