Quotes about Mind

In this way he slips imperceptibly into a purely conceptual world where the products of his conscious activity progressively take the place of reality.

No culture of the mind is enough to make a garden out of your soul.

A mind of the calibre of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows.

The man who listens to Reason is lost reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.

The heart is like a box; if it is filled with rubbish, there is no space for other things.

I related my impressions of La Paz, its purple mountains, its hermetic Indians, and its air, so thin that your lungs are always on the verge of filling with foam and your mind with hallucinations.

Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly, but take every building to pieces, and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. 'Think simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

What a man believes, he will die for. What a man merely thinks, he will change his mind about.

And when he is out of sight, quickly also he is out of mind.

From his cradle to the grave, a man never does a single thing which has any first and foremost object save one-to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for himself.

Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.

Man is more than merely an animal to exist and propagate his species. His mind gives him capacity to search out the great truths in God's arrangement and this lifts him far above the other animal creation.