For him to have understood me would have meant reorganizing his thinking... giving up his intellectual ballast, and few people are willing to risk such a radical move.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Before someone can change his ideas, he has to open his heart.
He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical.
A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.
My first husband would never make up his mind in less than five years, so I used to get him to think that whatever course of action needed to be taken was his idea. Then he'd go right ahead.
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
If someone tells you he is going to make a 'realistic decision', you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.
Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.
He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.
The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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