Human Mind Quotes
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How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!
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The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.
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The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.
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Of possible quadruple algebras the one that had seemed to him by far the most beautiful and remarkable was practically identical with quaternions, and that he thought it most interesting that a calculus which so strongly appealed to the human mind by its intrinsic beauty and symmetry should prove to be especially adapted to the study of natural phenomena. The mind of man and that of Nature's God must work in the same channels.
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Objects are made to be completed by the human mind.
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Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science are ultimate, that there are no mysteries in nature, that our triumphs are complete and that there are no new worlds to conquer.
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter.
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The series of integers is obviously an invention of the human mind, a self-created tool which simplifies the ordering of certain sensory experiences.
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A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules.
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The human mind cannot go beyond the gift of God, the Holy Ghost. To suppose that art can go beyond the finest specimens of art that are now in the world is not knowing what art is; it is being blind to the gifts of the spirit.
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We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter useful, and the human mind requires both. The cannon law and the codes of Justinian shall have due honor, and reign at the universities; but Homer and Virgil need not therefore be banished. We will cultivate the olive and the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and the rose.
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I have a hundred times heard him say, that all ages and nations have represented their gods as wicked, in a constantly increasing progression; that mankind have gone on adding trait after trait till they reached the most perfect conception of wickedness which the human mind could devise, and have called this God, and prostrated themselves before it.
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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
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The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.
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The highest power is the human mind. That's where God came from and my belief in God is my belief in myself.
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To conclude, The Light of humane minds is Perspicuous Words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity; Reason is the pace; Encrease of Science, the way; and the Benefit of man-kind, the end.
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The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.
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The human mind has first to construct forms, independently, before we can find them in things.
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Most mistakes in philosophy and logic occur because the human mind is apt to take the symbol for the reality.
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The great lesson here for all imaginatively gridlocked systems is that the acceptance and even cherishing of uncertainty is critical to keeping the human mind from voyaging into the delusion of omniscience.
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In the human mind, one-sidedness has always been the rule, and many-sidedness the exception. Hence, even in revolutions of opinion, one part of the truth usually sets while another rises.
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Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind.
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Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind.
