Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“You can control nothing but your own mind.”
- Source
- The Human Machine
- Date
- 1908
Meaning of “You can control nothing but your own mind.”
Bennett redirects the desire to manage other people or circumstances toward the sphere he treats as directly governable: one’s own response and attention.
Where does it come from?
The Human Machine, discussion of mental control. The maxim belongs to Bennett’s period self-discipline philosophy and should not be read as a clinical claim that thoughts or symptoms are always voluntarily controllable.
