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“Emotion is inseparable from the body in which it is felt, and emotion is also the basis for our engagement with the world.”
― The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
― The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
“When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote”
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“The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.”
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“Besides, isn't it confoundedly easy to think you're a great man if you aren't burdened with the slightest idea that Rembrandt, Beethoven, Dante or Napoleon ever lived?”
― Chess Story
― Chess Story
“When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.”
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