Mind Quotes - Page 447

Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.

The same things are best both for individuals and for states, and these are the things which the legislator ought to implant in the minds of his citizens.

There are, then, three states of mind ... two vices--that of excess, and that of defect; and one virtue--the mean; and all these are in a certain sense opposed to one another; for the extremes are not only opposed to the mean, but also to one another; and the mean is opposed to the extremes.

When life is at that extremely hard time, all we can control is our attitude.

The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defence are silent.

The essence of true education in one's life is to show the presence of mind, heart and soul to sense everything right.

To me, body and mind are different aspects of specific biological processes.

You know, mind allows us to portray in different sensory modalities, visual, auditory, olfactory, you name it, what we are like and what the world is like. But this very, very important quality of subjectivity, this quality that allows us to take a distant view and say, "I am here, I exist, I have a life and there are things around me that refer to me." That me-ness, M-E-hyphen, that is what really constitutes consciousness.

It's great to express yourself and tell other people's stories and get into the minds of people who aren't like you.

I don't really like watching my work. I don't mind watching it when I was a little kid because I forgive myself a lot, since I was a little kid.

I just think you can't shut your life off to just, you know, one thing. You gotta be open-minded. Explore things. Feed your artist.

The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. Get into a fist fight, put your mind on the strategy of the fight, and you will not feel the other fellow's punches.

Loneliness is bred of a mind that has grown earth-bound.

I was born in the same town as Richard Burton, the actor, and I saw him, he used to come - he and his wife drove by in the car in my father's shop and Burton would come home from Hollywood and ask him for his autograph, and I thought, I want to be like him. And that's all I said to myself, I want to be like that. I want to get out of this environment of my own empty mind.

There are many great minds on earth and not all are human.

You are putting on paper, in print, what you sense and feel in your mind.

Mind severed from body, culture from planet- to lose our ground is to lose our home.

We still have our larynx, we still have our minds and we still have our consciousness. We still have this gift to make things with words and images and get outside these preordained tropes and ways of thinking and the master narratives - what's handed to us.

Not that it was beautiful, but that, in the end, there was a certain sense of order there; something worth learning in that narrow diary of my mind

People used to say to my friend Mary, a quadriplegic, 'You still have your mind.' She would say, 'I still have my body.' The world tells me to divorce myself from my flesh, to live in my head. ... I didn't want to be fleshless.

No generous mind delights to oppress the weak, but rather to cherish and protect.

There are many ways to get involved with lives or communities and enrich the minds of others through music, but you really have to want to do this.

The awakenings of remorse, virtuous shame and indignation, the glow of moral approbation if they do not lead to action, grow less and less vivid every time they occur, till at length the mind grows absolutely callous.

Somebody needs to invent a shower for the mind, not just the body.

To discover depravity in those whom we have loved, is one of the most exquisite tortures to a virtuous mind, and the conviction is often rejected before it is finally admitted.