Mind

"... minds differ still more than faces."

"Mind, rather than emerging as a late outgrowth in the evolution of life, has existed always as the matrix, the source and condition of physical reality."

"The marvelous collection of forces which appear to control matter, if not actually to constitute it, are and must be mind products."

"Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song, and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self-congratulation on the excellence of the human mind."

"No scientist has yet provided an acceptable definition of "mind" or "mental" that reveals the character of "unconscious mental processes," and no physicist a lucid definition of "elementary particles" that shows how they can appear or disappear, and why there are so many."

"The material particle or the conscious mind—has been discovered not to be sufficiently unchanging to be treated as a thing in isolation... but more often to be the opposite: a changing system in a changing environment."

"I had rather believe all the fables in the Legends and the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind."

"That last infirmity of noble mind."

"All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth—in a word, all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world—have not any subsistence without a mind."

"Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts."

"The march of the human mind is slow."

"I love my neighbor as myself, Myself like him too, by his leave, Nor to his pleasure, power or pelf Came I to crouch, as I conceive. Dame Nature doubtless has designed A man the monarch of his mind."

"Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind."

"Animi cultus quasi quidam humanitatis cibus."

"Frons est animi janua."

"Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis."

"In anime perturbato, sicut in corpore, sanitas esse non potest."

"Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd."

"His mind his kingdom, and his will his law."

"How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light."

"Nature's first great title—mind."

"As that the walls worn thin, permit the mind To look out through, and his Frailty find."

"Babylon in all its desolation is a sight not so awful as that of the human mind in ruins."

"My mynde to me a kingdome is Such preasent joyes therein I fynde That it excells all other blisse That earth afforde or growes by kynde Though muche I wante which moste would have Yet still my mynde forbiddes to crave."

"My minde to me a kingdome is, Such perfect joy therein I finde As farre exceeds all earthly blisse That God or Nature hath assignde Though much I want that most would have Yet still my minde forbids to crave."

"God is Mind, and God is all; hence all is Mind."

"A great mind is a good sailor, as a great heart is."

"Each mind has its own method."

"Wer fertig ist, dem ist nichts recht zu machen, Ein Werdender wird immer dankbar sein."

"Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centers in the mind."

"A noble mind disdains to hide his head, And let his foes triumph in his overthrow."

"The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones."

"Lumen siccum optima anima."

"Whose little body lodged a mighty mind."

"A faultless body and a blameless mind."

"The glory of a firm capacious mind."

"And bear unmov'd the wrongs of base mankind, The last, and hardest, conquest of the mind."

"Sperat infestis, metuit secundis Alteram sortem, bene preparatum Pectus."

"Quæ lædunt oculum festinas demere; si quid Est animum, differs curandi tempus in annum."

"Acclinis falsis animus meliora recusat."

"Quin corpus onustum Hesternis vitiis, animum quoque prægravat una Atque affigit humo divinæ particulam auræ."

"The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small."

"What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind."

"Seven Watchmen sitting in a tower, Watching what had come upon Mankind, Showed the Man the Glory and the Power And bade him shape the Kingdom to his mind. . . . . . . That a man's mind is wont to tell him more Than Seven Watchmen sitting in a tower."

"La gravité est un mystère du corps inventé pour cacher les défauts de l'esprit."

"Nobody, I believe, will deny, that we are to form our judgment of the true nature of the human mind, not from sloth and stupidity of the most degenerate and vilest of men, but from the sentiments and fervent desires of the best and wisest of the species."

"Whoever has received from the divine bounty a large share of temporal blessings, whether they be external and material, or gifts of the mind, has received them for the purpose of using them for the perfecting of his own nature, and, at the same time, that he may employ them, as the steward of God's providence, for the benefit of others."

"Stern men with empires in their brains."

"O miseras hominum menteis! oh, pectora cæca!"

"Cum corpore ut una Crescere sentimus pariterque senescere mentemItalic text."