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So long as a man gets all his ideas from experiences gained through the body alone, so long may he pardonably accept the belief in materialism. But as soon as he begins to get them from thinking alone--and the difference can not be properly grasped until he has practised meditation sufficiently and successfully--so soon will he see the falsity of this belief.

-- Notebooks Category 7: The Intellect > Chapter 4 : Abstract Thought > # 133