Mind Quotes - Page 346

Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the human mind.

Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?

Her track, where'er the goddess roves, Glory pursue, and gen'rous shame, Th' unconquerable mind, and freedom's holy flame.

He that commits a sin shall find the pressing guilt lie heavy on his mind.

He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever.

The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.

The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history.

In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall.

The best portraits are perhaps those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature; and we are not certain that the best histories are not those in which a little of the exaggeration of fictitious narrative is judiciously employed. Something is lost in accuracy; but much is gained in effect. The fainter lines are neglected; but the great characteristic features are imprinted on the mind forever.

It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without wonder or disgust on the weaknesses which are found in the strongest minds.

In a dark time, the mind begins to see.

Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind.

Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what is radically evil.

Belief is the mother of reality. Excellence is a state of mind.

It is a gift when someone can challenge you and open your mind to new ideas.

There's something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology.

It is slowly becoming understood that the modality of being is the modality of mind.

The movement of a single atom from one known position to another known position changes an experience from nothing to overwhelming. This means that mind and matter at the quantum mechanical level are all spun together.

The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.

The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional and spiritual values rather than products. This is terrifying news.

Our thinking can create liberation or it can create imprisonment. It depends on how we use our mind.

A MOB is not, as is so often said, mindless. A MOB is single-minded.

Dating or finding someone is the last thing on my mind.

Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.

The forest did not tolerate frailty of body or mind. Show your weakness, and it would consume you without hesitation.