"I am the thought you are now thinking."

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Source : Douglas R. Hofstadter (1981). “Understanding Understanding”

Douglas Hofstadter

#Science Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I dreamed of myself in a dream, and told the dream, which was mine, as if it were another person's of whom I dreamed. Indeed what is life when thinking of the past, but dreaming of a dream dreamt by another who seems to be oneself?”
“I have sinned against my brother the ass.”
“Everything I've ever done that's valuable is something I was afraid to try.”
“Some of the folks on both sides might be sincere, but it does seem as if it is only the opposition that cares about the Bill of Rights most of the time.”
“Every time you state what you want or believe, you're the first to hear it. It's a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don't put a ceiling on yourself”
“The art of being agreeable frequently miscarries through the ambition which accompanies it. Wit, learning, wisdom,--what can more effectually conduce to the profit and delight of society? Yet I am sensible that a man may be too invariably wise, learned, or witty to be agreeable; and I take the reason of this to be, that pleasure cannot be bestowed by the simple and unmixed exertion of any one faculty or accomplishment.”
“I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends.”
“There is little pleasure in the world that is true and sincere beside the pleasure of doing our duty and doing good.”

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