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The rhythm of a lost word may be there without a sound to clothe it; or the evanescent sense of something which is the initial vowel or consonant may mock us fitfully, without growing more distinct. Every one must know the tantalizing effect of the blank rhythm of some forgotten verse restlessly dancing in one’s mind, striving to be filled out with words.
— Dec 29, 2018 10:13AM
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Matt
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In short, the only things which we commonly see are those which we preperceive and the only things which we preperceive are those which have been labeled for us, and the labels stamped into our mind. If we lost stock of our labels we should be intellectually lost in the midst of the world.
— Jan 12, 2019 02:31PM
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The reader who finds any comfort in the idea of the Soul, is, however, perfectly free to continue to believe in it; for our reasonings have not established the non-existence of the Soul; they have only proved its superfluity for scientific purposes.
— Dec 31, 2018 10:31AM
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But namelessness is compatible with existence. There are innumerable consciousnesses of emptiness, no one of which taken in itself has a name, but all different from each other
— Dec 29, 2018 10:10AM
Matt
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Habit is this the enormous fly-wheel of society, it’s most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.
— Dec 27, 2018 11:00AM
