Conversation

"Every thought is a brain excitement. The human brain is a storehouse of such excitement. These excitements are arranged in the same way as the pipes of an organ are arranged in a row by the pipe organ builder. When you talk, you touch one of the pipes in the person you are talking to. You can talk to the miner about anything, he'll talk to you about shafting. The farmer will talk about agriculture. The tenor singer about the voice. The actor about the stage. What distinguishes the clever man from the unclever is that he does not play his own organ, but lets others play their own pipes. If it's interesting, let's listen. If not, we run away."