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Mind Quotes - Page 251

As Meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's genius is a deity."

Platonic Questions, I. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

For the ordinary man, whose mind is a checkerboard of criss-crossing reflections, opinions, and prejudices, bare attention is virtually impossible.

Philip Kapleau (1970). “The three pillars of Zen: teaching, practice, and enlightenment”, Beacon Press (MA)

Probably the most potent desire for a painter, an image-maker, is to see it. To see what the mind can think and imagine, to realize it for oneself, through oneself, as concretely as possible.

Philip Guston, Clark Coolidge (2011). “Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations”, p.281, Univ of California Press

Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woefully small targets.

Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.91, Hachette UK

As the mind of each man is conscious of good or evil, so does he conceive within his breast hope or fear, according to his actions.

Ovid (1851). “The Fasti ; Tristia ; Pontic epistles ; Ibis ; and Halieuticon of Ovid”, p.31