The Mind Quotes
The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.
Let it be immediately added, however, that this economic independence and prosperity has always been absolutely associated in the American mind with free political institutions.
The issue is not abortion. The issue is whether women can make up their own mind instead of some right-wing pastor, some right-wing politician telling them what to do.
From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God.
To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.
Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
Even when I'm in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people do.
Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home.
I'd say that animal rights and environmental issues have always been at the forefront of my mind.
The real barrier (to building a brand) is the human mind. It normally takes decades to build a brand because it takes decades to penetrate the gray matter in between your ears.
An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it.
Hope is a settled state of mind, in which we see the world in its true light, and look forward to our final homecoming in heaven.
We call "happiness" a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.
They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
And there it was again. Another religion turned against itself. Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature.
He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.
When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body.
I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it's psychological truth.
Great genius you already have. The super conscious mind is invariably triggered by definition, and by decisiveness.
If crime and disease are to be regarded as the same thing, it follows that any state of mind which our masters choose to call 'disease' can be treated as a crime and compulsorily cured.
The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or a new primary color in the spectrum.
That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind.
You can ignite the senses and directly alter their state of mind and body through this scent, sparking a subliminal key to attraction.
Those of us who have been lucky enough to experience a calling in our work have a certain faith and peace of mind that it's exactly when we're supposed to be doing.
A calm mind is good for our physical health, but it also enables us to see things more realistically.
If an individual has a calm state of mind, that person's attitudes and views will be calm and tranquil even in the presence of great agitation.
We need material development, but we need to understand that by itself it doesn't bring peace of mind.
Neuroscience over the next 50 years is going to introduce things that are mind-blowing.
The conscious mind is going to suggest the obvious, the cliché, because these things have offered the security of having succeeded in the past.
Civilization no longer needs to open up wilderness; it needs wilderness to help open up the still largely unexplored human mind.
One of the keys to harnessing this potentially unlimited power of the mind is to expand your level of self-awareness.
As is the microcosm, so is the macrocosm, As is the atom, so is the universe, As is the human mind, so is the cosmic mind.
