Constrained Thinking Quotes

It's so easy to be boxed into one part and one part only.

We know God easily, if we do not constrain ourselves to define him.

We are the prisoners of ideas.

What we need is imagination, but imagination in a terrible strait-jacket.

We are all giants, raised by pygmies, who have learned to walk with a perpetual mental crouch.

Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.

When we're believing, we're not really thinking, because the belief has walls: "This is what I believe." So what I believe is like a box, and we're taking the energy of our thinking and putting into a box of beliefs, pretending that we're thinking. But we're really stifling our own energy. We create these mental stresses and frustrations, because we're blocking our spirit, so to speak.