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- Look in, and know the mind is all that is;
- And knowing, feeling it is all,
- Then have ye all.
ROBERT LEIGHTON, "Our Wealth Is Within Us"
Matter is plastic in the face of Mind.
- Nor fire, nor rocks, can stop our furious minds,
- Nor waves, nor winds.
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
THOMAS JEFFERSON, letter to Doctor Rush, Sep. 23, 1800
The mind is fast emancipating itself from the dominion of man and of matter. It has let loose fearful forces on the world.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT, Table Talk
The greatest business of a man is to improve his mind.
WELLINS CALCOTT, Thoughts Moral and Divine
It is in our own mind and not in exterior objects that we perceive most things; fools know scarcely anything because they are empty, and their heart is narrow; but great souls find in themselves a number of exterior things; they have no need to read or to travel or to listen or to work to discover the highest truths; they have only to delve into themselves and search, if we may say so, their own thoughts.
LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES, Reflections and Maxims
A Man has always the voice of his mind.
PIERRE-ANTOINE BERRYER, quoted in Words of Human Wisdom
The unconscious mind writes poetry if it's left alone.
The mind goes on working no matter how we try to hold it back.
You must maintain strength of body in order to preserve strength of mind.
LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES, Reflections and Maxims
- Take me disappearin’ through the smoke rings of my mind
- Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves
- The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach
- Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow
- Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free
- Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands
- With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves
- Let me forget about today until tomorrow
BOB DYLAN, "Mr. Tambourine Man"
Who knows the mind has the key to all things else.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT, Table Talk
An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
In the world of mind, as in that of matter, we always occupy a position. He who is continually changing his point of view will see more, and that too more clearly, than one who, statue-like, forever stands upon the same pedestal; however lofty and well-placed that pedestal may be.
ARTHUR HELPS, Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
People get stuck as they get older. Our minds are sort of electrochemical computers. Your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. You are really etching chemical patterns. In most cases, people get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them.
STEVE JOBS, Playboy, Feb. 1985
For me, the adventures of the mind, each inflection of thought, each movement, nuance, growth, discovery, is a source of exhilaration.
ANAIS NIN, diary, Nov. 1933
- Of all the tyrannies on human kind
- The worst is that which persecutes the mind.
JOHN DRYDEN, The Hind and the Panther
The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, Of a Certain Condescension in Foreigners
The unconscious is the larger circle which includes within itself the smaller circle of the conscious; everything conscious has its preliminary step in the unconscious, whereas the unconscious may stop with this step and still claim full value as a psychic activity. Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world through the indications of our sensory organs.
SIGMUND FREUD, Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners
The mind self-edits. The mind airbrushes. It's a different thing to be inside a body than outside. From outside, you can look, inspect, compare. From inside there is no comparison.
JEFFREY EUGENIDES, Middlesex
The force of mind is only as great as its expression; its depth only as deep as its power to expand and lose itself.
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL, The Phenomenology of Spirit
Without the mind, sensuality quite has no organs to call her own!
J. D. SALINGER, "Hapworth 16, 1924"
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