#tho

I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#empty #i #i think #into #my own

You can converge a toaster and a refrigerator, but those things are probably not going to be pleasing to the user. ↗

— Tim Cook

#going #pleasing #probably #refrigerator #things

A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#conviction #decorative #everything #fluency #forcible

So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#concerned #contrasted #discipline #far #forms

We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#built #higher #idiot #imagining #life

Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#charming #delightful #exploitation #innocence #offers

Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#either #fun #just #lying #pathology

It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#interpreting #observe #observing #possible #without

Conscious thought is the tidying up at the end. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#conscious thought #end #thought #up

Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#into #turn #vegetables #without #would