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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, this is madness. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The whole point of diaries is that other people find them and read what you've put. I did once take to writing my inner thoughts… — Helen Fielding
The mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one's own mind and how… — Gilbert Highet
People were always asking for good sound proofs; doubt springs eternal in the human breast, even in countries where the Inquisition can read your very… — Thornton Wilder
Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness --… — Dag Hammarskjold
Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate debate between God,… — Henri Frederic Amiel
My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there… — William Godwin
To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it seem like the commas… — Margaret Fuller
The old man, especially if he is in society in the privacy of his thoughts, though he may protest the opposite, never stops believing that,… — Giacomo Leopardi
If you want to "get in touch with your feelings," fine, talk to yourself. We all do. But if you want to communicate with another… — William Safire
It is important to say all the great thoughts again, without knowing that they have already been said. — Elias Canetti
Any test that turns on what is offensive to the communitys standards is too loose, too capricious, too destructive of freedom of expression to be… — William O. Douglas
Racist, sexist, and homophobic thoughts cannot, alas, be abolished by fiat but only by the time-honored methods of persuasion, education and exposure to the other… — Barbara Ehrenreich
There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work. — Joseph Joubert
We pass thoughts around, from mind to mind, so compulsively and with such speed that the brains of mankind often appear, functionally, to be undergoing… — Lewis Thomas
If you talked or laughed in church, told lies, had impure thoughts or conversations, you were bad; if you obeyed your parents or guardians, went… — Mary McCarthy
...since social relationships are always ambiguous, since my thought is only a unit, since my thoughts create rifts as much as they unite, since my… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all. — Isaac Barrow
We have kept our children so busy with "useful" and "improving" activities that we are in danger of raising a generation of young people who… — Eda LeShan
Now, for pure bloggers, for individual people who are just posting their own thoughts, they would still run the same risk of saying something wrong… — Gregg Easterbrook

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