We like to think, of course, that we think; but what people allow to pass for thinking is usually about 90 percent reshuffling of images.
—Robert Farrar Capon
Do you want to do intellectual work? Begin by creating within you a zone of silence, a habit of recollection, a will to renunciation and detachment which puts you entirely at the disposal of the work; acquire that state of soul unburdened by desire and self-will which is the state of grace of the intellectual worker. Without that you will do nothing, at least nothing worthwhile.
—A. G. Sertillanges, O.P.
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