"Just as there is no such thing as a collective or racial mind, so there is no such thing as a collective or racial achievement. There are only individual minds and individual achievements-an d a culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men."

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Source : Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.291, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Ayn Rand

#Men Quotes #Intellectual Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Greetings, friends. Do you wish to look as happy as me? Well, you've got the power inside you right now. So use it and send one dollar to Happy Dude, 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield. Don't delay. Eternal happiness is just a dollar away.”
“When one sense has been bribed the others readily bear false witness.”

Source : John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”
“It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men.”
“Travel is at its most rewarding when it ceases to be about your reaching a destination and becomes indistinguishable from living your life”

Source : Paul Theroux (2011). “The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“the best committee's a committee of one!”

Source : Naomi Mitchison (1997). “Lobsters on the Agenda”, Birlinn Publishers
“I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.”
“The reluctant hero is always fun to play.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“In those days, we imagined ourselves as being kept in some kind of holding pen, waiting to be released into our lives. And when the moment came, our lives -- and time itself -- would speed up. How were we to know that our lives had in any case begun, that some advantage had already been gained, some damage already inflicted? Also, that our release would only be into a larger holding pen, whose boundaries would be at first undiscernible.”

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