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Welcome to Cogito.  This is a special place for me as it explores the written word of those who dared to share their thoughts with the world.  I hope you are inspired and/or prompted to challenge your own thinking with respect to the topics presented.   Above all, it is my wish for you that what you read here will make your life a little more beautiful, joyful and peaceful!  Enjoy!

Analynn Riley  

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Cogito, ergo sum.

I think, therefore I am.

                - René Descartes [1596-1650]  French philosopher

 

 

My thought is me; that is why I can't stop.  I exist by what I think ... and I can't prevent myself from thinking.      

- Jean-Paul Sartre  [1905-1980]  French writer

Great thoughts come from the heart.  

- Marquis de Vauvenargues [1715 - 1747]  French soldier and writer

 

A great many open minds should be closed for repairs.    - Toledo Blade

 

Minds like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.                        

 - Charles Dickens [1812 - 1939]  British novelist

 

The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations.   - Celia Green

 

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.                 

- Eric Hoffer [[902 - 1983]  US writer

 

 

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Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.  

 - Elbert Hubbard [1856 - 1915]  Writer and Editor

 

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.   

- Carl Gustav Jung  [1875 - 1961]  Swiss psychoanalyst

 

You should pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.  

- Juvenal [c.60 - 130 AD]  Roman satirist

 

A mind not to be changed by place or time.  The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.  

- John Milton [1608 - 1674]  English poet.

 

The mind has great influence over the body, and maladies often have their origin there.                  

  - Molière  [Jean Baptiste Poquelin:  1622 - 1673]  French dramatist

 

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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.  

- Michel do Montaigne [1533 - 1592]  French essayist and moralist

 

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our one duty is to furnish it well.

-  Peter Ustinov [1921 - 2004] British actor, director and writer

 

Mind over matter.   - Virgil [70 - 19 BC]  Roman poet

 

Strongest minds are often those of whom the noisy world hears least. 

 - William Wordsworth  [1770 - 1850]  British poet

 

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