Reflections--"Thoughts", 1915-1920

File — Box: 37-40, Volume: 7

Identifier: VII

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Scope and Contents

"Expression is the fruit of human thought." (page 6)
"From one point of view it looks as if there were only two things in the way of man's greater comfort and happiness. One is death, the other lies in his own ignorance and perversity." (page 7)
"As I grow older it seems to me more and more that true happiness as well as usefulness lies in selfrealization." (page 11)
"My mind loves to wander to imaginary realms. It is right that it should I believe." (page 15)
"It is comparatively easy to make advancement but to hold firmly to what is gained requires greatness indeed." (page 33)
"If you wish to be something great be a human being not a lower animal." (page 36)
"I have a chance to do a great work here both for science and for ourselves, and I want to be an efficient instrument for the work. I want those who employ me to be fully satisfied with my work for them and I want to be satisfied with my own progress and the progress of my own work." (page 47)
"I think sometimes that life is hell anyway you look at it. One is put here without his consent, and with handicaps any way he may go and hedged round with trouble and perplexities which he must go thro sooner or later. If it is not one thing it's another." (page 305)
"But still at 56 I have dreams. He who has not dreams is but a dead coal from which the glow is gone." (page 307)
"I have labelled this book Self Development, but if there is any such thing it is different I think from what I conceived it then." (page 343)
"I have had high ideals and good intentions but what has it all amounted to?" (page 358)
"Thought is the proper and wholesome exercise of the mind." (page 403)

Dates

1915-1920

Language of Materials

From the Collection: Collection materials are in English.

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