Quotes about Mind
The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.
— Nancy Pearcey
The prevailing mentality was that the Church must not be a Church of laws but, rather, a Church of love; she must not punish. Thus, the awareness that punishment can be an act of love ceased to exist. This led to an odd darkening of the mind, even in very good people.
— Pope Benedict XVI
There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
— Ambrose of Milan
Music is the exaltation of the mind derived from things eternal, bursting forth in sound.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in circumstances confronting him.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
It is not our body which feels, not our mind which thinks, but we, as single human beings, who both feel and think.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
An angel can illume the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea.
— Samuel Beckett
The Churchyard abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo.
— Samuel Johnson
With these [Love, Patience, Faith] celestial Wisdom calms the mind,And makes the happiness she does not find.
— Samuel Johnson
The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
— Samuel Johnson