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Thinking in its lower grades is comparable to paper money, and in

Thinking in its lower grades is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry. – Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life, 1923

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[Thinking is] what a great many people think they are doing when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. – William James

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A just thinker will allow full swing to his scepticism. I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot…. We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Worship,” The Conduct of Life, 1860

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