The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.
The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
The best way to renew thought is to go outside the human imagination.
As we approach each of the great social challenges of our time we must acknowledge that old thinking will not provide the new solutions we need. These solutions will be uncomfortable, hard to sell and risky to execute. But the cost of not doing so is even greater.
Is there no way out of the mind?
You have to make choices always. It's about the omission of something for the sake of another.
Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.
When you have two alternatives, the first thing you have to do is to look for the third that you didn't think about, that doesn't exist.