Source: Mrs. Dalloway
“What does it matter if, by following my heart, I also fulfill someone else’s plan?”
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Ender's Game series, First Meetings in the Enderverse (2003), Teacher's Pest
“Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.”
“What strategy does the brain use to read itself out?”
In Search of Memory (2006)
Context: What strategy does the brain use to read itself out? That question, which is central to the unitary nature of conscious experience, remains one of the many unresolved mysteries of the new science of mind.
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are but tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 131
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.”
“What are you to do with the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?”
Source: Gaudy Night
“What a man knows hardly matters. It is what he does.”
Source: The Wizard
Reverence for Life (1969)
Context: I do not want to frighten you by telling you about the temptations life will bring. Anyone who is healthy in spirit will overcome them. But there is something I want you to realize. It does not matter so much what you do. What matters is whether your soul is harmed by what you do. If your soul is harmed, something irreparable happens, the extent of which you won't realize until it will be too late.
“In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.”
