"When Everyone thinks alike, everyone is likely to be wrong"

-- Humphrey B. Neill

#Thinking Quotes

“Think of the actual physical elements that compose our bodies: we are 98 percent hydrogen and oxygen and carbon. That's table sugar. You are made of the same stuff as table sugar. Just a couple of tiny differences here and there and look what happened to the sugar: it can stand upright and send tweets.”
“In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play.”
“Our natural state of being is in relationship, a tango, a constant state of one influencing the other. Just as the subatomic particles that compose us cannot be separated from the space and particles surrounding them, so living beings cannot be isolated from each other... By the act of observation and intention, we have the ability to extend a kind of super-radiance to the world.”
“The 'public' is a phantom, the phantom of an opinion supposed to exist in a vast number of persons who have no effective interrelation and though the opinion is not effectively present in the units. Such an opinion is spoken of as 'public opinion,' a fiction which is appealed to by individuals and by groups as supporting their special views. It is impalpable, illusory, transient; ''tis here, 'tis there, 'tis gone'; a nullity which can nevertheless for a moment endow the multitude with power to uplift or destroy.”

Source : "Man in the Modern Age". Book by Karl Jaspers, 1933.
“I take none of that to heart. I don't feel like there's anything that I need to do for anybody else. I want to win bad enough for myself anyway, that nothing anybody can say can make me want to win any more.”
“There is no treasure like the human heart.”
“I can't read ten pages of Steinbeck without throwing up.”

Source : "Books: The Hermit of Lambertville". "TIME" Magazine, September 2, 1957.
“I would like to do a part that would stretch me. In America it seems to me that you just take your clothes off and that helps, but I wouldn't want to do that.”

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