This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

In art, as in love, instinct is enogh.

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

In thebusiness world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes,governed by self interest.

Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.