The Voice of Virtue

Everyone interprets everything in terms of his own experience;

If you say anything which does not touch a precisely similar spot in another man’s brain, he either misunderstands you, or doesn’t understand you at all.

People think that talking is a sign of thinking. It isn’t, for the most part;

On the contrary, it’s a mechanical dodge of the body to relieve oneself of the strain of thinking;

Just as exercising the muscles helps the body to become temporarily unconscious of its weight, its pain, its weariness, and the foreknowledge of its doom.

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