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2410345 ... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. mind George R.R. Martin
4c0f61a Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart. dreams fearless heart inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living mind motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking Roy T. Bennett
47d3a7b I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts. diversity heart individuality love mind seduction soul Leo Tolstoy
a72b055 More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate. authentic-living being-positive blessed compassion hate inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes judgment less-more life life-purpose life-quotes living love mind motivation optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking smile smiles spirituality stress stressed worry worrying Roy T. Bennett
aab160c Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind. life mind Jeffrey Eugenides
fcc24f4 When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. mind Milan Kundera
7c40127 Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit. life mind stories youth Neil Gaiman
fc9628c Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude. attitude happiness happy inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-quotes living mind mindset optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking Roy T. Bennett
7778c46 The biggest wall you have to climb is the one you build in your mind: Never let your mind talk you out of your dreams, trick you into giving up. Never let your mind become the greatest obstacle to success. To get your mind on the right track, the rest will follow. dream dreams dreams-quotes inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living mind mind-quotes motivation motivational obstacle optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking success success-quotes Roy T. Bennett
6d40325 Stop giving other people the power to control your happiness, your mind, and your life. If you don't take control of yourself and your own life, someone else is bound to try. happiness inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living mind motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking Roy T. Bennett
533b92d The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye. interpretation mind soul Charlotte Brontë
7343882 Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. human intellectual mind reality George Orwell
1ae9b65 "Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination." heart imagination mind Cornelia Funke
67bddbc "My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world." mind mystery rebellion sherlock-holmes stagnation Arthur Conan Doyle
4ab94da It's important that what thoughts you are feeding into your mind because your thoughts create your belief and experiences. You have positive thoughts and you have negative ones too. Nurture your mind with positive thoughts: kindness, empathy, compassion, peace, love, joy, humility, generosity, etc. The more you feed your mind with positive thoughts, the more you can attract great things into your life. belief compassion empathy experiences generosity humility inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring joy kindness life life-quotes living love mind motivation motivational optimism optimistic peace positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking thoughts Roy T. Bennett
03fbd3d Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind. beauty beauty-in-nature inspirational love meditation mind mindfulness nature nature-s-beauty pure-awareness purifying relaxation Amit Ray
cc6ee17 The boldness of his mind was sheathed in a scabbard of politeness. boldness courtesy mind politeness scabbard sheathed thomas-jefferson Dumas Malone
4155144 Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill, in waking, to find that they have been upon the verge of the great secret. In snatches, they learn something of the wisdom which is of good, and more of the mere knowledge which is of evil. eternity mind mystery wisdom Edgar Allan Poe
778432a The mind of man is capable of anything. man mind Joseph Conrad
9f59265 A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push. mind social-anxiety Ludwig Wittgenstein
887e2b4 To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind. insight mind reading tastes Geraldine Brooks
78781d0 It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior. mind real what-is-on-the-inside Anne Brontë
8a95a93 What's the point in having a mind if you don't use it to make judgements? judgamental judgement mind Sarah J. Maas
a5277f2 Keep your mind open. The meaning of things lies in how people perceive them. The same thing could mean different meanings to the same people at different times. inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring keep-your-mind-open life life-quotes live-life-to-the-fullest living living-life-to-the-fullest meaning mind open-your-mind opportunity optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking Roy T. Bennett
766dd96 Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it. body denial life mind truth Sara Gruen
adf390c There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save. mind suffering Isaac Asimov
1642a05 There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose. marriage matches matrimony mind purpose suitability unhappiness Charles Dickens
869fb40 Because memory and sensations are so uncertain, so biased, we always rely on a certain reality-call it an alternate reality-to prove the reality of events. To what extent facts we recognize as such really are as they seem, and to what extent these are facts merely because we label them as such, is an impossible distinction to draw. Therefore, in order to pin down reality as reality, we need another reality to relativize the first. Yet that other reality requires a third reality to serve as its grounding. An endless chain is created within our consciousness, and it is the very maintenance of this chain that produces the sensation that we are actually here, that we ourselves exist. mind reality Haruki Murakami
70a0a22 Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now. inspirational life mind escape Virginia Woolf
fc3850b Do you see the story? Do you see anything? It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is the very essence of dreams... mind storytelling Joseph Conrad
7ebf392 The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation. mind Michel de Montaigne
f55a7de She has man's brain--a brain that a man should have were he much gifted--and woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination. brains combination gifted giftedness god heart intelligence man mankind mind purpose woman women Bram Stoker
d70f02a We all have forests on our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone. forest mind Ursula K. Le Guin
5e2a7a2 "You're wrong. The mind is not like raindrops. It does not fall from the skies, it does not lose itself among other things. If you believe in me at all, then believe this: I promise you I will find it. Everything depends on this." "I believe you," she whispers after a moment. "Please find my mind." love mind Haruki Murakami
daec47b The very idea of making shoes by hand boggled her mind. idea mind one shoes tally uglies ugly Scott Westerfeld
b7120e2 There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature. mind reading Stephen R. Covey
cf83f13 ...grief can derange even the strongest and most disciplined of minds. mind George R.R. Martin
1456e16 "It's a thought," I said with a grin. "That's exactly what it is, Dan - a thought - no more real than the shadow of a shadow. Consciousness is not In the body; the body is In Consciousness. And you Are that Consciousness - no the phantom mind that troubles you so. You are the body, but you are everything else, too. That is what your visions revealed to you. Only the mind resists change. When you relax mindless into the body, you are happy and content and free, sensing no separation. Immortality is Already yours, but not in the same way you imagined or hope for. You have been immortal since before you were born and will be long after the body dissolves. The body is in Consciousness; never born; never dies; only changes. The mind - your ego, personal beliefs, history, and identity - is all that ends at death. And who needs it?" Socrates leaned back into his chair. "I'm not sure all of that sank in." "Of course not." He laughed. "Words mean little unless you realize the truth of it yourself. And when you do, you'll be free at last." -- consciousness free mind philosophy Dan Millman
60b5318 You can do what you decide to do -- but you cannot decide what you will decide to do. free-will mind Sam Harris
bf4f468 There are no limitations to the mind except those that we acknowledge. limit mind napoleon-hill Napoleon Hill
7db34cb The mind knows only what lies near the heart. mind Edith Hamilton
1a9eae4 The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep. mind sanity sleep world Stephen King
72533ee The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist economics economists expertise intellect mind science Nassim Nicholas Taleb
9192322 . . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker . . . diseased mind perverse perverted reverse seclusion solitary Charles Dickens
f54acdd A mind is like a puzzle; you must unlock it to read its hidden secrets. life mind reality Melissa de la Cruz
f7f1a8e Science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to stimuli beating upon our sense organs from without. Owing to the similarity of our construction and the sameness of our environment, we respond in like manner to similar stimuli, and from the concordance of our reactions, understanding is born. In the course of ages, mechanisms of infinite complexity are developed, but what we call 'soul' or 'spirit,' is nothing more than the sum of the functionings of the body. When this functioning ceases, the 'soul' or the 'spirit' ceases likewise. I expressed these ideas long before the behaviorists, led by Pavlov in Russia and by Watson in the United States, proclaimed their new psychology. This apparently mechanistic conception is not antagonistic to an ethical conception of life. astronomy behaviorism behaviorists consciousness cosmology determinism dogma environment ethics first-cause goal ivan-pavlov ivan-petrovich-pavlov john-b-watson john-broadus-watson john-watson life life-after-death materialism mind naturalism nature pavlov physics psychology religion science science-and-religion spirit stimuli theology universe watson Nikola Tesla
545f62d To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune. mind religion spirit Ursula K. Le Guin
01b3a26 A brain was only capable of what it could conceive, and it couldn't conceive what it had never experienced capable concieve experience human mind thoughtful Graham Greene
d908b0f In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you. mind J.K. Rowling
cbf39df Understand: your mind is weaker than your emotions. But you become aware of this weakness only in moments of adversity--precisely the time when you need strength. What best equips you to cope with tthe heat of battle is neither more knowledge nor more intellect. What makes your mind stronger, and more able to control your emotions, is internal discipline and toughness.No one can teach you this skill; you cannot learn it by reading about it. Like any discipline, it can come only through practice, experience, even a little suffering. The first step in building up presence of mind is to see the need for ii -- to want it badly enough to be willing to work for it. mind power Robert Greene
ac34322 Your mind was made to know and love God. god love mind purpose John Piper
0a172eb remembering is a great invention of the mind, and if you try hard enough you can remember anything, whether it really happened or not. mind Rodman Philbrick
8248429 You can't fight a battle you don't think exists. mind thoughts John Eldredge
f08608a Matter is plastic in the face of Mind. matter mind Philip K. Dick
fbccacf What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness? inspirational intellect love mind Martin Luther King Jr.
76239f2 The only limitation is that which one sets up in one's own mind. life limitation mind success Napoleon Hill
8f712d8 O, what a world of unseen visions and heard silences, this insubstantial country of the mind! What ineffable essences, these touchless rememberings and unshowable reveries! And the privacy of it all! A secret theater of speechless monologue and prevenient counsel, an invisible mansion of all moods, musings, and mysteries, an infinite resort of disappointments and discoveries. A whole kingdom where each of us reigns reclusively alone, questioning what we will, commanding what we can. A hidden hermitage where we may study out the troubled book of what we have done and yet may do. An introcosm that is more myself than anything I can find in a mirror. This consciousness that is myself of selves, that is everything, and yet is nothing at all - what is it? And where did it come from? And why? mind Julian Jaynes
5dbbee1 When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things. But an acceptance of contradiction is no excuse for fuzzy thinking. We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledge that they cannot take us all the way. contradiction imagination intellect mind wisdom Madeleine L'Engle
6fe1cd4 The reassuring smile was now useless. I was plastic. Everything was veiled. Objectivity, facts, hard information--these were things only in the outline stage. There was nothing tying anything together yet, so the mind built up a defense, and the evidence was restructured, and that was what I tried to do on that morning--to restructure the evidence so it made sense--and that is what I failed at. failure mind restructure uselessness Bret Easton Ellis
5391e1e She's a writer. The kind of writer who wouldn't be published outside. She believes that when one deals with words, one deals with the mind. john-galt mind writing Ayn Rand
512e2aa I have set off and found that there is no end to even the simplest journey of the mind. I begin, and straight away a hundred alternative routes present themselves. I choose one, no sooner begin, than a hundred more appear. Every time I try to narrow down my intent I expand it, and yet those straits and canals still lead me to the open sea, and then I realize how vast it all is, this matter of the mind. I am confounded by the shining water and the size of the world. mind Jeanette Winterson
d7b7cec The learnin' mind is the livin' mind... an' any sort o' smart is truesome smart, old smart or new, high smart or low. mind David Mitchell
c5c7332 But there were too many points at which the other self could invade the self he wanted to preserve, and there were too many forms of invasion: certain words, sounds, lights, actions his hands or feet performed, and if he did nothing at all, heard and saw nothing, the shouting of some triumphant inner voice that shocked him and cowed him. inner-voice inner-voicery invasion life lights mind patricia-highsmith self shocked shouting sounds strangers strangers-on-a-train train voice words Patricia Highsmith
6ad79b5 That's the way the mind works: the brain is genetically disposed towards organization, yet if not controlled, will link even the most imagerial fragment to another on the flimsiest pretense and in the most freewheeling manner, as if it takes a kind of organic pleasure in creative association, without regards to logic or chronological sequence. imagination mind psychology Tom Robbins
4f0952c But there is no energy unless there is a tension of opposites; hence it is necessary to discover the opposite to the attitude of the conscious mind. duality energy mind opposites polarity psychology unconscious C.G. Jung
db3b234 How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat? courage fear fight fright hate hope men-s-heart mental-illness mind mystery self-loathing torture Joseph Conrad
7f43905 She was a mind floating in an ocean of confusion. confusion floating metaphor mind ocean sad scared Caroline B. Cooney
1d9ae0f What chance combination of shadow and sound and his own thoughts had created it? creation mind nightp patricia-highsmith shadow sound strangers strangers-on-a-train thoughts train trickster Patricia Highsmith
b35a999 Recent brain scans have shed light on how the brain simulates the future. These simulation are done mainly in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, the CEO of the brain, using memories of the past. On one hand, simulations of the future may produce outcomes that are desirable and pleasurable, in which case the pleasure centers of the brain light up (in the nucleus accumbens and the hypothalamus). On the other hand, these outcomes may also have a downside to them, so the orbitofrontal cortex kicks in to warn us of possible dancers. There is a struggle, then, between different parts of the brain concerning the future, which may have desirable and undesirable outcomes. Ultimately it is the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex that mediates between these and makes the final decisions. (Some neurologists have pointed out that this struggle resembles, in a crude way, the dynamics between Freud's .) brain freud mind neuroscience prediction simulation Michio Kaku
fb7b8b8 Preston, I don't think this creature could ever find its way into your head. Quite apart from anything else, it seems pretty crowded and complicated to me. mind Terry Pratchett
6c9c7f9 Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and must combat it or be corrupted by it. When it sees the irrationality of others, it must seek to correct it, and can do this either by teaching or engaging in public affairs itself, correcting through its practice. And the purpose of action is to enable philosophy to continue, for if men are reduced to the material alone, they become no more than beasts. body civilization continuance mankind materialism mind philosophy rationality reason Iain Pears
a873b46 The mind creates those things that exist. mind Terry Tempest Williams
fa6cf2c Let your body work until it is spent, but keep your mind for yourself. mind work Haruki Murakami
df1ac72 The lake of my mind, unbroken by oars, heaves placidly and soon sinks into an oily somnolence.' That will be useful. mind useful Virginia Woolf
84d81b8 We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there. mind understanding Michel de Montaigne
e8e6ec1 I'd seen glimpses of a different me. It was a different me because in those increments of time I thought I actually became a winner. The truth, however, is painful. It was a truth that told me with a scratching internal brutality that I was me, and that winning wan't natural for me. It had to be fought for, in the echoes and trodden footprints of my mind. In a way, I had to scavenge for moments of alrightness. brutality footprints mind natural scavenge truth winning Markus Zusak
5dc86e4 "Think it over carefully. This is very important," I say, "because to believe something, whatever it might be, is the doing of the mind. Do you follow? When you say you believe, you allow the possibility of disappointment. And from disappointment or betrayal, there may come despair. Such is the way of the mind." despair mind Haruki Murakami
44d0433 No two human beings are alike; it's a question of identity. And what is identity? The cognitive system arisin' from the aggregate memories of that individual's past experiences. The layman's word for this is the mind. Not two human beings have the same mind. At the same time, human beings have almost no grasp of their own cognitive systems. I don't, you don't, nobody does. All we know--or think we know--is but a fraction of the whole cake. A mere tip of the icing. mind Haruki Murakami
ac9173a I don't seem able to get it straight in my mind.... mind one-flew-over-the-cuckoo-s-nest Ken Kesey
14d3acf Personally, I do not believe the human mind has any limits but those we impose ourselves. limits mind Louis L'Amour
495c357 In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities. There is magic in this moist world, in how the mind lets go, slips into sleepy water, circles and nuzzles the banks of palmetto and wild iris, how it seeps across dreams, smears them into the upright world, rots the wood of treasure chests, welcomes the body home. circle dream iris magic meditation mind palmetto perception self water Barbara Hurd
4d8ce06 <...> I've never believed there is any animal more dangerous than a human being. I never will. It's the intelligence. It's the mind that makes it so. human-being intelligence mind Maggie Shayne
075c74c Very quickly, very suddenly, words fell through my mind. They landed on the floor of my thoughts, and in there, down there, I started to pick the words up. They were excerpts of truth gathered from inside me. mind thoughts truth words Markus Zusak
2b7f2f5 She would go off in the morning with the punt full of books, and spend long glorious days away in the forest lying on the green springy carpet of whortleberries, reading. She would most diligently work at furnishing her empty mind. She would sternly endeavour to train it not to jump. literature mind reading words Elizabeth von Arnim
f34ccaa "Are you all right, Sir?" asked Hezekiah. "Just fighting over old battles in my mind," said John. "It's the problem with age. You have all these rusty arguments, and no quarrel to use them in. My brain is a museum, but alas, I'm the only visitor, and even I am not terribly interested in the displays." Hezekiah laughed, but there was affection in it. "I would love nothing better than to visit there. But I'm afraid I'd be tempted to loot the place, and carry it all away with me." brain honor mind museum Orson Scott Card
977b548 "In his article, Bogen concluded: "I believe [with Wigan] that each of us has two minds in one person. There is a host of detail to be marshaled in this case. But we must eventually confront directly the principal resistance to the Wigan view: that is, the subjective feeling possessed by each of us that we are One. This inner conviction of Oneness is a most cherished opinion of Western Man. . . ." mind oneness subjective Philip K. Dick
ad7788f With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be. You always dread the unfamiliar. Surely you remember the boy in your own school class who was exceptionally 'bright,' did most of the reciting and answering while the others sat like so many leaden idols, hating him. And wasn't it this bright boy you selected and tortured after hours? Of course it was. We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves again. So! A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man's mind. Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man? Me? books breach bright bullying burning conform constitution cowardice creativity critics different dread education equality examiners fliers free grabbers happiness image imagination imaginative-creators intellectual intelligence judge judgment jumpers knowers mind moutains racers rights runners school snatchers swimmers target tinkerers torture unfamiliar weapons Ray Bradbury
e36c0bd The lid, however, wouldn't shut. The mind held back the whole sky. lid mind sky Denis Johnson
1a30f6a The motions of her mind were as incalculable as the flit of a bird in the branches ethan-frome inspirational mind Edith Wharton
6f013b4 Well, a man's mind can't stay in time the way his body does. memory mind time John Steinbeck
73e051e ... All who have brought about a state of sex-consciousness are to blame, and it is they who drive me, when I want to stretch my faculties on a book, to seek it in that happy age ... when the writer used both sides of his mind [the male and female sides of his mind] equally. One must turn back to Shakespeare then, for Shakespeare was androgynous; and so were Keats and Sterne and Cowper and Lamb and Coleridge. Shelley perhaps was sexless. Milton and Ben Jonson had a dash too much of the male in them. So had Wordsworth and Tolstoy. keats mind shakespeare writing Virginia Woolf
3b54aa5 As a rule, theologians know nothing of this world, and far less of the next; but they have the power of stating the most absurd propositions with faces solemn as stupidity touched by fear. It is a part of their business to malign and vilify the , , , , Tyndalls, , , , and Drapers, and to bow with uncovered heads before the murderers, adulterers, and persecutors of the world. They are, for the most part, engaged in poisoning the minds of the young, prejudicing children against science, teaching the astronomy and geology of the bible, and inducing all to desert the sublime standard of reason. adulterers afterlife alexander-humboldt alexander-von-humboldt astronomy charles-darwin children-science darwin david-hume draper ernst-haeckel fear geology haeckel herbert-spencer humboldt hume john-draper john-tyndall john-william-draper knowledge mind murderers paine persecutors poison power prejudice propositions reason spencer stupidity sublime theologian theologians theology thomas-paine tyndall vilify voltaire wilhelm-humboldt wilhelm-von-humboldt world Robert G. Ingersoll
a4f2661 The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance: some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase. memory mind mind-games Gregory Maguire
dd27801 Life had stepped into the place of theory and something quite different would work itself out in his mind. god life mind soul theory thought universal Fyodor Dostoyevsky
0b42db3 "The facts of nature are what they are, but we can only view them through the spectacles of our mind. Our mind works largely by metaphor and comparison, not always (or often) by relentless logic. When we are caught in conceptual traps, the best exit is often a change in metaphor -- not because the new guideline will be truer to nature (for neither the old nor the new metaphor lies "out there" in the woods), but because we need a shift to more fruitful perspectives, and metaphor is often the best agent of conceptual transition." -- metaphor mind nature Stephen Jay Gould
8564f82 ... the lofty mind of man can be imprisoned by the artifices of its own making. christopher-marlowe faust faustian faustus grand-plans imprisionment imprison man mankind marlowe mind philosophical planning plans sad-but-true when-plans-go-wrong when-things-fall-apart E.A. Bucchianeri
2bcfb40 Work on what is real rather than worry about what is unreal. christian fake god inspire love mind thought unreal women worry Elizabeth George
40828c3 Grief is a hone to a hard mind. hone middle-earth mind mind-power overcoming power tolkien J.R.R. Tolkien
94b46ef The body is the outermost layer of the mind. mind David Mitchell
ce6fb8a The information. Every bit that of information that was ever in your brain. But the information is not the mind Jenna. That we've never accomplished before. What we've done with you is groundbreaking. We cracked the code. The mind is an energy that the brain produces. Think of a glass ball twirling on your fingertip. If it falls, it shatters into a million pieces. All the parts of a ball are still there, but it will never twirl with that force on your fingertip again. The brain is the same way. brain information memories mind pieces Mary E. Pearson
cbf9cc5 If you fill your mind with a beautiful thought, there will be no room in it for an ugly one. - King Amor mind ugly-thoughts Frances Hodgson Burnett
f25e95c If we deny the need for thought, Moneo, as some do, we lose the powers of reflection; we cannot define what our senses report. If we deny the flesh, we unwheel the vehicle which bears us. But if we deny emotion, we lose all touch with our internal universe. It was emotions which I missed the most. emotion feeling mind thought Frank Herbert
1d050e0 The person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind onto whatever screen it fits with least distortion. mind projection Arthur C. Clarke
fd0fbf0 ... the mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which should shape our wants and satisfy them more deeply with God. The purpose of the mind is not to rationalize subjective preferences, but to recognize objective reality and to help the heart revel in God. god intellect mind objectivity truth John Piper
c24e025 It is as though we are understanding now what (William) Blake intuited, the senses were, in Eden, spread over the whole being. It might seem, then, that our bodies still live in Eden, but our minds refuse to know it. eden mind senses william-blake Peter Redgrove
d2e8459 "As always when he worked with this much concentration he began to feel a sense of introverting pressure. There was no way out once he was in, no genuine rest, no one to talk to who was capable of understanding the complexity (simplicity) of the problem or the approaches to a tentative solution. There came a time in every prolonged effort when he had a moment of near panic, or "terror in a lonely place," the original semantic content of the word. The lonely place was his own mind. As a mathematician he was free from subjection to reality, free to impose his ideas and designs on his own test environment. The only valid standard for his work, its critical point (zero or infinity), was the beauty it possessed, the deft strength of his mathematical reasoning. THe work's ultimate value was simply what it revealed about the nature of his intellect. What was at stake, in effect, was his own principle of intelligence or individual consciousness; his identity, in short. This was the infalling trap, the source of art's private involvement with obsession and despair, neither more nor less than the artist's self-containment, a mental state that led to storms of overwork and extended stretches of depression, that brought on indifference to life and at times the need to regurgitate it, to seek the level of expelled matter. Of course, the sense at the end of a serious effort, if the end is reached successfully, is one of lyrical exhilaration. There is air to breathe and a place to stand. The work gradually reveals its attachment to the charged particles of other minds, men now historical, the rediscovered dead; to the main structure of mathematical thought; perhaps even to reality itself, the so-called sum of things. It is possible to stand in time's pinewood dust and admire one's own veronicas and pavanes." art-creation concentration depression despair loneliness mental-health mind obsession thought Don DeLillo
4b1cc7c There are always waves on the water. Sometimes they are big, sometimes they are small, and sometimes they are almost imperceptible. The water's waves are churned up by the winds, which come and go and vary in direction and intensity, just as do the winds of stress and change in our lives, which stir up the waves in our minds. churned-up meditation mind mindfulness stress water waves wind Jon Kabat-Zinn
537f593 Pain is a good cleanser of the mind and therefore of the sight. Matters which seem to mean the world, in health, are found to be of no import when pain is hard upon you. mind pain sight thinking Richard Llewellyn
ca467d9 - V Apokalipsisa angel't se k'lne, che veche niama da ima vreme. - Znam. Tova tam e mnogo viarno; iasno i tochno. Kogato chovek't dostigne shchastieto, niama da ima veche vreme, zashchoto ne e nuzhno. Mnogo viarna mis'l. - K'de shche go dianat? - Nik'de niama da go diavat. Vremeto ne e predmet, a ideia. Shche ugasne v uma. apocalypse mind time angel vreme um Fyodor Dostoyevsky
f80a855 Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cuvier? Borne away on the wings of his genius, have you hovered over the illimitable abyss of the past as if a magician's hand were holding you aloft? As one penetrates from seam to seam, from stratum to stratum and discovers, under the quarries of Montmartre or in the schists of the Urals, those animals whose fossilized remains belong to antediluvian civilizations, the mind is startled to catch a vista of the milliards of years and the millions of peoples which the feeble memory of man and an indestructible divine tradition have forgotten and whose ashes heaped on the surface of our globe, form the two feet of earth which furnish us with bread and flowers. Is not Cuvier the greatest poet of our century? Certainly Lord Byron has expressed in words some aspects of spiritual turmoil; but our immortal natural historian has reconstructed worlds from bleached bones. civilization cuvier discoverer discovery feeble fossils genius geology george-byron george-gordon-byron george-gordon-noel george-gordon-noel-byron georges-cuvier historian immensity lord-byron memory mind montmartre natural poet poetry science space time treatise turmoil urals Honoré de Balzac
4da2ccb The fear is not real, Dil Bahadur; it is only in your mind, like all other things. Our thoughts form what we believe to be reality. mind Isabel Allende
667b300 Thinking is man's only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed. And his basic vice, the source of all his evils, is that nameless act which all of you practice, but struggle never to admit: the act of blanking out, the willful suspension of one's consciousness, the refusal to think - not blindness, but the refusal to see; not ignorance, but the refusal to know. It is the act of unfocusing your mind and inducing an inner fog to escape the responsibility of judgment - on the unstated premise that a thing will not exist if only you refuse to identify it, that A will not be A so long as you do not pronounce the verdict 'It is. evil good john-galt life man mind morality morals objectivism philosophy pursuit-of-happiness rational reason think thinking truth values virtue wisdom Ayn Rand
958e313 Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice -- and the alternative his nature offers him is: rational being or suicidal animal. Man has to be man -- by choice; he has to hold his life as a value -- by choice; he has to learn to sustain it -- by choice; he has to discover the values it requires and practice his virtues -- by choice. A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality. choice evil good john-galt life man mind morality morals objectivism philosophy pursuit-of-happiness rational reason think thinking values virtue Ayn Rand
2ce906b The mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain. There is no such thing as a collective thought. An agreement reached by a group of men is only a compromise or an average drawn upon many individual thoughts. It is a secondary consequence. The primary act--the process of reason--must be performed by each man alone. individual mind the-fountainhead Ayn Rand
0a8cdc5 The human mind prefers something which it can recognize to something for which it has no name, and, whereas thousands of persons carry field glasses to bring horses, ships, or steeples close to them, only a few carry even the simplest pocket microscope. Yet a small microscope will reveal wonders a thousand times more thrilling than anything which Alice saw behind the looking-glass. alice-in-wonderland carroll lewis-carroll looking-glass microscope mind recognition science ships thrilling David Fairchild
d031770 Three quick breaths triggered the responses: he fell into the floating awareness... focusing the consciousness... aortal dilation... avoiding the unfocused mechanism of consciousness... to be conscious by choice... blood enriched and swift-flooding the overload regions... one does not obtain food-safety freedom by instinct alone... animal consciousness does not extend beyond the given moment nor into the idea that its victims may become extinct... the animal destroys and does not produce... animal pleasures remain close to sensation levels and avoid the perceptual... the human requires a background grid through which to see his universe... focused consciousness by choice, this forms your grid... bodily integrity follows nerve-blood flow according to the deepest awareness of cell needs... all things/cells/beings are impermanent... strive for flow-permanence within... mind mindfulness Frank Herbert
3a71a5f Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it--that no substitute can do your thinking--that the vilest form of self-abasement and self-destruction is the subordination of your mind to the mind of another, the acceptance of an authority over your brain, the acceptance of his assertions as facts, his say-so as truth, his edicts as middle-man between your consciousness and your existence. evil good happiness independence john-galt life man mind morality morals objectivism pain philosophy pursuit-of-happiness rational reason think thinking truth values virtue wisdom Ayn Rand
eb33dc8 "But Amarantha rolled her eyes and slouched in her throne. "Shatter him, Rhysand." She flicked a hand at the High Lord of the Summer Court. "You may do what you want with the body afterward." The High Lord of the Summer Court bowed--as if he'd been given a gift--and looked to his subject, who had gone still and calm on the floor, hugging his knees. The male faerie was ready--relieved. Rhys slipped a hand out of his pocket, and it dangled at his side. I could have sworn phantom talons flickered there as his fingers curled slightly. "I'm growing bored, Rhysand," Amarantha said with a sigh, again fiddling with that bone. She hadn't looked at me once, too focused on her current prey. Rhysand's fingers curled into a fist. The faerie male's eyes went wide--then glazed as he slumped to the side in the puddle of his own waste. Blood leaked from his nose, from his ears, pooling on the floor. That fast--that easily, that irrevocably ... he was dead. "I said shatter his mind, not his brain," Amarantha snapped. The crowd murmured around me, stirring. I wanted nothing more than to fade back into it--to crawl back into my cell and burn this from my mind. Tamlin hadn't flinched--not a muscle. What horrors had he witnessed in his long life if this hadn't broken that distant expression, that control? Rhysand shrugged, his hand sliding back into his pocket. "Apologies, my queen." He turned away without being dismissed, and didn't look at me as he strode for the back of the throne room. I fell into step beside him, reining in my trembling, trying not to think about the body sprawled behind us, or about Clare--still nailed to the wall. The crowd stayed far, far back as we walked through it. "Whore," some of them softly hissed at him, out of her earshot; "Amarantha's whore." But many offered tentative, appreciative smiles and words--"Good that you killed him; good that you killed the traitor." feyre kill mind punish rhysand Sarah J. Maas
3297c43 Happiness is the successful state of life, pain is an agent of death. Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. A morality that dares to tell you to find happiness in the renunciation of your happiness--to value the failure of your values--is an insolent negation of morality. evil good happiness john-galt life man mind morality morals objectivism philosophy pursuit-of-happiness rational reason think thinking values virtue Ayn Rand
0179f0b For the first time she could see a man's head naked of its skull. Saw the cunning thoughts race in and out through the caves and promontories of his mind long before they darted through the tunnel of his mouth. man mind thinking thoughts woman Zora Neale Hurston
0a4ae97 We cannot begin to define God's knowledge. We know, simply and profoundly, that nothing is hidden from Him or incomprehensible to Him. comprehend define faith god heart hide knowledge love mind profound simple Elizabeth George
a514c2b Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification. consciousness existence john-galt life man mind morality morals objectivism philosophy pursuit-of-happiness rational reason think thinking truth values virtue wisdom Ayn Rand
d4aa10e Rationality is the recognition of the fact that existence exists, that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it, which is thinking--that the mind is one's only judge of values and one's only guide of action--that reason is an absolute that permits no compromise--that a concession to the irrational invalidates one's consciousness and turns it from the task of perceiving to the task of faking reality--that the alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind--that the acceptance of a mystical invention is a wish for the annihilation of existence and, properly, annihilates one's consciousness. evil good happiness john-galt life man mind morality morals objectivism pain philosophy pursuit-of-happiness rational reason think thinking truth values virtue wisdom Ayn Rand
9c425e3 Life is a process of self-sustaining and self-generated action. If an organism fails in that action, it dies...It is only the concept of 'Life' that makes the concept of 'Value' possible. It is only to a living entity that things can be good or evil. evil good john-galt life man mind morality morals objectivism philosophy pursuit-of-happiness reason think thinking values virtue Ayn Rand
987b61e And those of us who trust ourselves the least, Who doubt and question most, these, it may be, Will make their mark upon eternity, And youth will turn to them as to a feast. The time may come when a man who confessed His self-doubts will be ranked among the blessed Who never suffered anguish or knew fear, Whose times were times of glory and good cheer, Who lived like children, simple happy lives. For in us too is part of that Eternal Mind Which through the aeons calls to brothers of its kind: Both you and I will pass, but it survives. eternity holiness mind Hermann Hesse
4c555ad Are you seeking to know what is wrong with the world? All the disasters that have wrecked your world, came from your leaders' attempt to evade the fact that A is A. All the secret evil you dread to face within you and all the pain you have ever endured, came from your own attempt to evade the fact that A is A. evil good john-galt life man mind morality morals objectivism philosophy pursuit-of-happiness rational reason think thinking truth values virtue wisdom Ayn Rand
d8c654e [H]er mind was like a balloon with static cling, attracting random ideas as they floated by[.] mind simile Jonathan Franzen
8678554 As it is with the love of the body, so with the friendship of the mind, the full is only reached by admittance to the most retired places. mind Samuel Beckett
89a3adc To Mr. Jones, she said, imagine you're looking up at a blue sky, and imagine a tiny airplane skywriting the letter Z. Then let the wind erase the letter. Then imagine the plane writing the letter Y. Let the wind erase it. Then the letter X. Erase it. Then the letter W. Let the wind erase it. chuck-palahniuk mind subconscious zen Chuck Palahniuk
362d243 ...a well-stocked mind is safe from boredom. mind Arthur C. Clarke
def226c Udell was an ordinary man, I thought, but a man with an extraordinary way of thinking. That was truly worth more than gold: extraordinary thinking. mind Nancy E. Turner
2703805 There are mysterious agencies of the human mind which, like roving gases, travel the world, causing pain and mutilation, without their owners having any full awareness, or even any awareness at all, of the strength and the whereabouts of these exhalations... So it is that we can be terrors to each other, and people in lonely rooms suffer humiliation and even damage because of others in whose consciousness perhaps they scarcely figure at all. interaction mind Iris Murdoch
e5cf665 A foolish German had said that man thought in words. It was totally false; a pernicious doctrine; the thoughts flashed into being in a hundred simultaneous forms, with a thousand associations, and the speaking mind selected one, forming it grossly into the inadequate symbols of words, inadequate because common to disparate situations - admitted to be inadequate for vast regions of expression, since for them there were the parallel languages of music and painting. Words were not called for in many or indeed most forms of thought: Mozart certainly thought in terms of music. He himself at this moment was thinking in terms of scent. mind thinking Patrick O'Brian
8cd1173 I cut the wood however I like, but it's the grain that decides the strength and shape of it. You can add and subtract memories from people, but it isn't just your memory that makes you who you are. There's something in the grain of the mind. individuality memory mind Orson Scott Card
5e7e26c This was his mind, a storehouse, a computer programmed to life, minute by minute, hour by hour, day and night. mind pearl-s-buck rann the-eternal-wonder Pearl S. Buck
f3e4ae0 Isn't it strange how wise counsel can cool the hottest head? He made sense but my heart screamed protest. consider cool counsel discuss head heart hothead mind protest realize sense speak talk think Robin Hobb
da1b5b6 "She shakily rushed towards the car to find Alecto casually standing beside it, smoking a cigarette and staring fixedly on the radio as it played the song 'Draggin' the Line' by Tommy James, his expression thoughtful. "What are you thinking about?" Mandy questioned. "Wouldn't the world be a very loud place to live if we said everything we thought?" Alecto asked quietly." cigarette dragging line live loud mind music noise noisy place question quiet radio smoking song thinking thought tommy-james world Rebecca McNutt
34c50fc No matter what it is, if you don't move your eyes and set the pace yourself, your intellect is sentenced to death. The mind, you see, is like a muscle. For it to remain agile and strong, it must work. Television rules that out. mind television Mark Helprin
7b5df7e By all kinds of traps and sign-boards, threatening the extreme penalty of the divine law, exclude such trespassers from the only ground which can be sacred to you. It is so hard to forget what it is worse than useless to remember! If I am to be a thoroughfare, I prefer that it be of the mountain-brooks, the Parnassian streams, and not the town-sewers. There is inspiration, that gossip which comes to the ear of the attentive mind from the courts of heaven. There is the profane and stale revelation of the bar-room and the police court. The same ear is fitted to receive both communications. Only the character of the hearer determines to which it shall be open, and to which closed. I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be tinged with triviality. Our very intellect shall be macadamized, as it were,--its foundation broken into fragments for the wheels of travel to roll over; and if you would know what will make for the most durable pavement, surpassing rolled stones, spruce blocks, and asphaltum, you have only to look into some of our minds which have been subjected to this treatment so long. gossip intellect meaning mind thinking thoughts trivia Henry David Thoreau
6e51cf0 My mind is like a room where the door swings free in the breeze, and many visitors come and go and stay and vanish as they will. mind thoughts Jane Smiley
38410de When a fine old carpet is eaten by mice, the colors and patterns of what's left behind do not change,' wrote my neighbor and friend, the poet Jane Hirschfield, after she visited an old friend suffering from Alzheimer's disease in a nursing home. And so it was with my father. His mind did not melt evenly into undistinguishable lumps, like a dissolving sand castle. It was ravaged selectively, like Tintern Abbey, the Cistercian monastery in northern Wales suppressed in 1531 by King Henry VIII in his split with the Church of Rome. Tintern was turned over to a nobleman, its stained-glass windows smashed, its roof tiles taken up and relaid in village houses. Holy artifacts were sold to passing tourists. Religious statues turned up in nearby gardens. At least one interior wall was dismantled to build a pigsty. I've seen photographs of the remains that inspired Wordsworth: a Gothic skeleton, soaring and roofless, in a green hilly landscape. Grass grows in the transept. The vanished roof lets in light. The delicate stone tracery of its slim, arched quatrefoil windows opens onto green pastures where black-and-white cows graze. Its shape is beautiful, formal, and mysterious. After he developed dementia, my father was no longer useful to anybody. But in the shelter of his broken walls, my mother learned to balance her checkbook, and my heart melted and opened. Never would I wish upon my father the misery of his final years. But he was sacred in his ruin, and I took from it the shards that still sustain me. mind misery ruin sacred tintern-abbey Katy Butler
9e58fb9 "It's all in my mind. I'm in my right mind now, and my right mind is crazy. "You need to wake up, Ella." The words are a command I cannot obey." crazy ella-shepard in-my-mind mind wake-up Beth Revis
3b59e5f "Or... maybe I'm not going crazy. "Maybe I'm some sort of android-cyborg-clone-thing, and I'm just breaking down. I'm not sure which way is worse. Dad laughs. "You're not in your right mind, dear," he says. "No, no, no, you're not." And then-- --Silence. Dad fades away. The reverie chair disappears. There's just blackness. I remember then that I am in the reverie of something dead. Whatever that thing was, it was dead. And, just as I'm starting to wonder if, perhaps, I have died, too, I see a light, far away in the corner of the dreamscape. The light isn't soft; it's not glowing. It crackles like silent lightning, burning with electricity, sparks flying out and fizzling in the dark. I don't know why--it makes no sense, the way dreams often don't--but I want to touch the light. So I do." blackness breaking-down crazy dead dreamscape light mind reverie silence Beth Revis
e687b7c The best ideas rarely arise in one isolated mind, but rather develop in networks of curious and creative thinkers. creative curious ideas isolated mind network thinkers Esther Perel
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