Quotes
Quotes about Mind
The Stoics also teach that God is unity, and that he is called Mind and Fate and Jupiter, and by many other names besides.
The chief good is the suspension of the judgment, which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow.
I would have you call to mind the strength of the ancient giants, that undertook to lay the high mountain Pelion on the top of Ossa, and set among those the shady Olympus.
Even as a surgeon, minding off to cut
Some cureless limb,--before in ure he put
His violent engins on the vicious member,
Bringeth his patient in a senseless slumber,
And grief-less then (guided by use and art),
To save the whole, sawes off th' infested part.
Let every man mind his own business.
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute; for feeling, except in the infinite; for the soul, except in the divine.
The efficacy of religion lies precisely in what is not rational, philosophic or eternal; its efficacy lies in the unforeseen, the miraculous, the extraordinary. Thus religion attracts more devotion according as it demands more faith,--that is to say, as it becomes more incredible to the profane mind. The philosopher aspires to explain away all mysteries, to dissolve them into light. Mystery on the other hand is demanded and pursued by the religious instinct; mystery constitutes the essence of worship, the power of proselytism. When the "cross" became the "foolishness" of the cross, it took possession of the masses.
Clothed, and in his right mind.
Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
Be ye all of one mind.
Afflicted, or distressed, in mind, body, or estate.
Men to be of one mind in an house.
What you are pleased to call your mind.
The mind naturally strays and wanders, holding to nothing very long, coming back frequently to the same point again and again but rarely staying there
Literature clearly has something to do with not forcing the reader into a state of mind (or physicality) which places the writer in a position of advantage over him.
You have to learn to be alone â no sex, not even any books. All youâll have is language, the great conserver, and poetry, the great isolate shaper. Stock your minds with language, for Christâs sake. Learn how to write whatâs memorable. No, not write â compose in your head.
God made his mind up, right from the beginning, that some were damned, some saved, and strictly what you did with life, saintly by choice or sinning, mattered to God not one benighted jot. You prosper? That probably means you're winning. You're losing, lost - the sudden voices shout it. You're lost, and nothing can be done about it.
Dreams are strange. A man can wake sweating in terror. What is that dark country of the mind through which we wander in sleep?
The conscious act of concentration frees other segments of the senses and the mind to record the current of exterior life
People are very queer, really. If a man's a professor, for instance, they always think he's going to be ugly and untidy and bald and absent-minded, and I don't see any reason why that should be true
But the real age, as we are always being told, is an effect of the mind. It is manifested chiefly in lack of interest in life
Some scenes from one's past hug the mind with the force of a profound symbol impossible to read
If we take away plot, character, dialogue, even characters, we shall be left with something that is common to the most traditional and avant-garde novelist - a concern with interpreting, through the imagination, the flux of ordinary life; an attempt to understand, though not with the cold deliberation of the scientist, the nature of the external world and the mind that surveys it
He (James Joyce) is a modern novelist who has equipped our minds with the words and symbols we need in order to understand the contemporary world, and he will still be waiting to help when the fearsome future rolls in
