Mind Quotes
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Novelists in particular love to rhapsodize about the glory of the solitary mind; this is natural, because their job requires them to sit in a room by themselves for years on end. But for most of the rest of us, we think and remember socially.
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To philosophical materialists God is no more than an idea in the human mind, and not a very important idea.
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A thinking mind is not swallowed up by what it comes to know. It reaches out to grasp something related to itself and to its present knowledge (and so knowable in some degree) but also separate from itself and from its present knowledge (not identical with these). In any act of thinking, the mind must reach across this space between known and unknown, linking one to the other but also keeping visible to difference. It is an erotic space.
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No matter how much we disagree with people, demonising them doesn't get us anywhere; it merely indicates a closed mind.
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What pleases our mind is not dangerous enough.
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There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.
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You’re supposed to expand your mind to fit the art, you’re not supposed to chop the art down to fit your mind.
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There are some things your mind has been hiding from you.
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How can the mind participate in communication.
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To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception.
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If I had known I'd be on Matador back then in my childhood, it would have blown my mind.
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We have associations to things. We have, you know, we have associations to tables and to - and to dogs and to cats and to Harvard professors, and that's the way the mind works. It's an association machine.
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Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read. Forget I mentioned it. This song has no message. Rise for the flag salute.
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Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of a clock in the middle with only the rhythm of the first uncounted strokes lingering in the mind.
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Every day since the start of the Tour de France, the popular 'Le Parisien' newspaper has published a story about a book written with the bicycle in mind.
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All of us experience a gap between our minds and the reality of time—that's why we suffer.
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What the mind cannot retain, the body will have to endure.
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It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both.
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Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.
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I know if I don't look after myself, I will be talking to you in a couple of years' time mumbling my words and slurring. It won't be because I am drunk: it will be the fighting, taking blow after blow to the brain. That scares me. I don't worry about being killed in the ring; it's losing my mind that I fear.
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Running is a great way to relieve stress and clear the mind.
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'Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprize, every expanded prospect.'
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The thought in my mind was that I must be a good merchant. If I were a good merchant, the rest would probably take care of itself.
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I'm in my mind a lot. I live there.
