A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.
It is well to open one's mind but only as a preliminary to closing it ... for the supreme act of judgment and selection.
There's no way to release yourself from a memory. It ends when it wants to end, whether it's in a flash or long after you've begged it to stop.
The need for certainty is the greatest disease the Mind faces
I think that we're pattern-seeking animals, and what we like best is a story where everything fits together, where there's no puzzle pieces left over.
And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life.
In reality, we can only talk about things that we already overcame in our minds.
The nearer a conception comes towards finality, the nearer does the dynamic relation, out of which this concept has arisen, draw to a close. To know is to lose.
