mindset Quotes

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

God made me and broke the mold.

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.