His mind is so open - so open that ideas simply pass through it.

An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.

My external sensations are no less private to my self than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience falls within my own circle, a circle closed on the outside... the whole world for each is peculiar and private to that soul.

Another occupation might have been better.

His mind is so open - so open that ideas simply pass through it.

The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.

It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.