💬 Quotes

"They're trying to send a message. That even the most successful of us is just a piece in their game."

"Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!"

"It's the Capitol's way of reminding us that no matter how free they let us feel, they can always yank the leash."

"The supposed barrier between mind and matter is merely a linguistic convenience, a division of labor between two different types of causal laws operating on the same ultimate stuff of the world."

"What we call our 'thoughts' are merely internal speech and faint images, differing from physical objects not in their intrinsic nature, but in the laws of their correlations and the fact that they are private."

"Desires are not mysterious teleological forces pulling us from the future; rather, they are organic states of restlessness that persist until a certain action removes the physical cause of the discomfort."

"Memory is not the magical recovery of a past event, but a present structural modification left behind by that event, combined with an accompanying feeling of familiarity."

"The 'I' is not a persistent substance or a transcendental ego, but a series of experiences bound together by relations of memory and habit—a bundle of perceptions in constant flux."

"If we are to find a place for mind in nature, we must abandon the traditional dualism and view both mental and physical phenomena as arrangements of neutral stuff."

"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts."

"Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth."

"You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear."

"My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis."

"Confide in me, then, tell me all about it, and we will figure it out together."

"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact."

"Hard work is wholesome, and a little dirt does no harm; so don't be afraid of it."

"Boys are like plants, you know; they grow best in the sunshine."

"It is an easy thing to be good when you are happy, but it is very hard to be patient when you are tried."

"Money is a good thing, but it doesn't buy everything, and some of the happiest people in the world have very little of it."

"We are all a great family here, and we must help one another along."