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Quote by Leo Tolstoy
English (Source)
Consciousness is the investigation of one's own spiritual being, knowledge is the investigation of everything that is external. One is always at the expense of the other. The bigger one of them, the smaller the other. Memory and thinking effort are in the same ratio: the greater the one, the less the other. As in a limited container. And because it is one for both, they are almost always mingled together, and the one is taken for the other; the higher the memory, the lower the thinking effort, and vice versa. About a man with a good memory it is said: he is smart, about a person who thinks original, but has a poor memory, it is said: he is stupid!