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Conviction by feeling is not always so vague as it seems. Some of the things to which man clings, calling them felt truths, are so called only because he is not able to adduce tangible proofs to their reality. But frequently, if he applies himself to a thorough examination of all the concrete and theoretical testimonies by which he has persuaded himself to believe certain things, he finds that subconsciously he has really accumulated quite solid structures of logical justification. Intelligence often later supplies proofs of what intuition has long since suspected and proposed
Creative Vision in Artist and Audience
Richard Guggenheimer
When you ask: “Who am I?” you are trying to read yourself as if you were a simple sentence already written. Instead, you write yourself as you go along. The sentence that you recognize is only one of many probable variations. You and no other choose which experiences you want to actualize. You do this as spontaneously as you speak words. You take it for granted that a sentence begun will be finished. You are in the midst of speaking yourself.
The Nature of the Psyche
Jane Roberts
It hurt me to see the American army with drawn bayonets advancing on American boys and girls. But the answer I gave the young radicals seemed to me the only realistic one: “Do one of three things. One, go find a wailing wall and feel sorry for yourselves. Two, go psycho and start bombing—but this will only swing people to the right. Three, learn a lesson. Go home, organize, build power and at the next convention, you be the delegates.”
Rules for Radicals
Saul Alinsky
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