If only [people] understood that every thought is both false and true! False by one-sidenedness resulting from man's inability to embrace the whole truth, and true as an expression of one fact of human endeavor.
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Leo Tolstoy
Ihr redet, wenn ihr aufhört mit euren Gedanken in Frieden zu sein.
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Kahlil Gibran
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
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Victor Hugo
This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
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Samuel Johnson
My words are within the rim But No rim can bind my Thought.
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Kartik Mehta
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