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Mind Quotes - Page 269

Happiness is a state of mind. You can be happy or you can be unhappy.

Walt Disney, Kathy Merlock Jackson (2006). “Walt Disney: Conversations”, p.102, Univ. Press of Mississippi

The sole "property" of matter with whose recognition philosophical materialism is bound up is the property of being an objective reality, of existing outside the mind.

"Materialism and Empirio-criticism: Critical Comments on a Reactionary Philosophy (1908)". Book by Vladimir Lenin. Chapter Five: "The Recent Revolution in Natural Science and Philosophical Idealism". Collected Works, Volume 14, www.marxists.org.

Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.

Vincent van Gogh (1976). “My life & love are one: quotations from the letters of Vincent Van Gogh to his brother Theo”, Blue Mountain Press

It seems to me that philosophers should be more relaxed about whether or not some form of materialism is true.

Tyler Burge (2013). “Cognition Through Understanding: Self-Knowledge, Interlocution, Reasoning, Reflection: Philosophical Essays”, p.487, Oxford University Press

Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture.

"Tori Amos Says Eminem's Fictional Dead Wife Spoke To Her" by Teri Vanhorn, www.mtv.com. September 28, 2001.