The Art Of Thinking We Must Know Ourselves In Order To Think For Ourselves

US $120

  • Tonto Basin, Arizona, United States
  • Jun 14th
THE ART OF THINKING BY ERNEST DIMNET Third printing 1929. This book the boards 5x8" are soiled , rubbed and scuffed, corners bumped, head and heal stunned..and inside  pages 34 and 35 damp stain very slight foxing overall clean and shaken. The real purpose hidden under the gregarious act of reading is NOT TO THINK. The Art of Thinking is the art of being one’s self and this art can only be learned if one is by one’s self. Many people are professionally trained to concentration. Napoleon could pass from one subject to a completely different one, from strategy, for instance, to the Charter of the Comedie-Francaise, as if he had been another man. Interest of any kind produces concentration naturally. Real interest is essential for concentration and creates it in an instant. Another infallible method of concentrating is to take pen in hand and prepare to write down what our mind will dictate. There is in the very gesture something imperative which the most wandering mind seldom resists. Most men and women die vague about life and death, religion or morals, politics or art. Even about purely practical issues they are far from being clear...they imagine they are thinking of some important subject when they are merely thinking of thinking about it. When this fallacy has been nursed for some time in our subconsciousness we decide that the question admits of no compelling answer and we act according to the pressure of circumstances, or perfunctory advice, or the slogans of the moment.

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