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You may not realize it, but everything you think has been determined by someone else. Your beliefs and convictions do not belong to you, they were dictated and you copied them.
If you really want to own your thoughts, read this guide.
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How to think for yourself - Rodrigo Chaves
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning oneself.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Introduction by Arthur Schopenhauer
It is sometimes possible to unravel, slowly and with much effort, through one's own thoughts, a truth, an idea that could, otherwise, be comfortably found, already stated in a book.
However, it is a hundred times more valuable when it is obtained through one´s own thoughts. For only then is it introduced, as an integral part, as a living member, into the whole system of our thoughts, establishing a perfect and firm connection with them, being understood with all its motives and consequences, acquiring the color, tone. And unique marking of our own way of thinking.
You are free!
That's right.
You are free to think.
You are free to have your own opinion on any subject.
You are free to investigate and seek information.
And the internet is there to make this task easier.
You are not required to say Amen
to everything you are told.
You may ask, Why?
You can say I have my doubts
You can decide I will think this over
Yes, believe me, your mind has no shackles.
If
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