Quotes About Minds

Religious faith represents so uncompromising a misuse of the power of our minds that it forms a kind of perverse, cultural singularity ? a vanishing point beyond which rational discourse proves impossible.

The insolence of base minds in success is boundless; and would scarce admit of a comparison, did not they themselves furnish us with one in the degrees of their abjection when evil returns upon them.

Studio people are idiots. Until they see someone else doing it and make a success of it, they don't open their minds. Most of them are idiots.

Had I succeeded well, I had been reckoned amongst the wise; our minds are so disposed to judge from the event.

There is every reason why the standards in our civilization are so low, because we have poisoned, in a literal sense of the word, our minds with the physico-chemical effects of wrong ideas.

Franny entwined her legs with his. She understood why ancient monsters were often made of two creatures, with two hearts and minds. There was strength in such a combination of opposites.

The craft was dangerous and unpredictable, and witches were difficult to control, for they had minds of their own and didn't hold to keeping to the law.

He visto las mejores mentes de mi generación destruidas por la locura

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness

Despairs! Ten years' animal screams and suicides! Minds! New loves! Mad generation! down on the rocks of Time! Real holy laughter in the river! They saw it all! the wild eyes! the holy yells! They bade farewell! They jumped off the roof! to solitude! waving! carrying flowers! Down to the river! into the street!

It's quite common to enter a library and find yourself in conversation with the dead. The best minds of generations long gone crowd every bookshelf. They wait there to be noticed, to be addressed, and to reply in turn. In the library the dead meet the living on collegial terms as a matter of course, every day.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

The tiniest bits of opinion sown in the minds of children in private life afterwards issue forth to the world, and become its public opinion; for nations are gathered out of nurseries.

You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.

The total collapse of the public opinion polls shows that this country is in good health. A country that developed an airtight system of finding out in advance what was in people's minds would be uninhabitable.

the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished soulsare unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.

Unless a sentence paid a few compliments to Justice and Morality in passing, its grammar wounded their ears and paralysed their minds.

for man is so made that he cannot remember long without a symbol; he wished there was a society, a kind of friendship office, where the marriage of true minds could be registered.

Problems are challenges to creative minds. Without problems, there would be little reason to think at all.

The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key, so that their joint glances on any subject cross like interarching searchlights.

"Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones."

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

No man is a leader until his appointment is ratified in the hearts and minds of his men.

The peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.