Or is it that I think too much?

What I really hated, of course, was my mind. There must have been an off switch somewhere, but I was damned if I could find it.

To think too much is a disease.

You think too much.'

'I suppose I do; but I can’t help it, my mind is so terribly active. When I give myself, I give myself. I pay the penalty in my headaches, my famous headaches — a perfect circlet of pain! But I carry it as a queen carries her crown.

Be able to turn my mind on and off at will.
Master it rather than be enslaved by it.
Control the arrival and departure of thoughts.

Don't think too much. That makes you believe you have more choices than you do. Then you mind becomes confused.

I'm just thinking too fast — much too fast.

We must not think too much: people go mad if they think too much.

If you are too busy to think then you are too busy.

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.

Thinking is good, but excessive thinking is not. Between thoughts if there is a period of thoughtlessness, thoughts will be fresh and pathbreaking. A thinker will be able to cultivate a strain of healthy thoughts only when he pays attention to thoughtlessness also.

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts, so he loses touch with reality and lives in a world of illusions.

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts, so he loses touch with reality and lives in a world of illusions.

There is a kink in my damned brain that prevents me from thinking as other people think.