Claude Bernard Quotes

The mental never influences the physical. It is always the physical that modifies the mental, and when we think that the mind is diseased, it is always an illusion.

Claude Bernard

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• By the end of 2008, clearly the Al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the Al Qaeda's mind, they were defeated.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Mind
  • End
  • Defeated

• Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Past
  • Democracy
  • Mistakes

• Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Life
  • Art
  • Extraordinary

• I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Sex

• I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • People
  • Love
  • Son

• Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Fall
  • Woman
  • Grace

• I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Land
  • Landscape
  • Isolation

• I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.

  

  Manu Bennett
  • Kid
  • Dancing
  • Australia

• Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Time
  • Always
  • Try

• Maybe it is the media that has us divided.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Media
  • Maybe
  • Divided

• Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Science
  • Marketing
  • Bachelor

• It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Up
  • May
  • More

• Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Money
  • Attention
  • Drama

• It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Time
  • Men
  • Power

• Acting was something I had to do.

  

  Nancy Marchand
  • Acting
  • Something
  • Had

• My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • Job
  • Best
  • Author

• In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • You
  • Film
  • Audience

• People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • People
  • Succeed
  • Possible

• Unless God's Word illumine the way, the whole life of men is wrapped in darkness and mist, so that they cannot but miserably stray.

  

  John Calvin
  • God's Word
  • Mist
  • Illumine

• There's nothing like the peace of the countryside, the quiet and the lack of distraction. It helps you to focus your mind.

  Jenny Nimmo
  • Mind
  • Peace
  • Focus

• The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Mind
  • Humanity
  • Sacrifice

• There's a time and place for the Kindle, and I own one now and have books on it that I don't otherwise have. But I don't find that my hand reaches out for it the way it does for a trade paperback, or (in the middle of the night) for the iPod Touch.

  

  Nicholson Baker
  • Time
  • Night
  • Hand

• I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share what I say, and if listeners get it, they get it. And I never underestimate the audience's ability to feel me.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • World
  • Audience
  • Ability

• The mental never influences the physical. It is always the physical that modifies the mental, and when we think that the mind is diseased, it is always an illusion.

  

  Claude Bernard
  • Mind