Quotes About Mind

He laughed to free his mind from his minds bondage.

His brain was simmering and bubbling within the cracking tenement of the skull.Flames burst forth from his skull like a corolla,shrieking like voices: -Hell! Hell! Hell! Hell! Hell!

Sleep, where in the waste is the wisdom?

The music passed in an instant, as the first bars of sudden music always did, over the fantastic fabrics of his mind, dissolving them painlessly and noiselessly as a sudden wave dissolves the sandbuilt turrets of children.

But he was not sick there. He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place.

He laughed to free his mind from his mind's bondage.

After sound, light and heat, memory, will and understanding.

Kyrie ! The radiance of the intellect. I ought to profess Greek, the language of the mind.

When she had gone he said, laughing: —We call it D. B. C. because they have damn bad cakes. O, but you missed Dedalus on Hamlet. Haines opened his newbought book. —I'm sorry, he said. Shakespeare is the happy huntingground. of all minds that have lost their balance.

I admire the mind of man independent of all religions.

The feelings excited by improper art are kinetic, desire or loathing. Desire urges us to posses, to go to something; loathing urges us to abandon, to go from something. These are kinetic emotions. The arts which excite them, pornographical or didactic, are therefore improper arts. The esthetic emotion (I use the general term) is therefore static. The mind is arrested and raised above desire and loathing.

He had an odd autobiographical habit which led him to compose in his mind from time to time a short sentence about himself containing a subject in the third person and a verb in the past tense.

the modern mind...is interested above all in subtleties, equivocations and the subterranean complexities which dominate the average man and compose his life....modern literature is concerned with the twilight, the passive rather than the active mind...those undercurrents which flow beneath the apparently firm surface. (Joyce to Arthur Power)

Ä°nsan düÅŸüncenin bask?s? alt?ndaki bir müziÄŸi dinlemekte olduÄŸunu san?r.

I also am sure that there is no such thing as free thinking inasmuch as all thinking must be bound by its own laws.

Pride and hope and desire like crushed herbs in his heart sent up vapours of maddening incense before the eyes of his mind. He strode down the hill amid the tumult of suddenrisen vapours of wounded pride and fallen hope and baffled desire. they streamed upwards before his anguished eyes in dense and maddening fumes and passed away above him till at last the air was clear and cold again.

Said religion was not a lying-in hospital. Mother indulgent. Said I have a queer mind and have read too much. Not true. Have read little and understood less. Then she said I would come back to faith because I had a restless mind. This means to leave church by back door of sin and re-enter through the skylight of repentance. Cannot repent. Told her so and asked for sixpence. Got threepence.

He taps his brow.) But in here it is I must kill the priest and the king.

Thought is a thought of thought

My mind rejects the whole present social order and Christianity — home, the recognised virtues, classes of life, and religious doctrines

He would cast about in his mind for some words that might console her, and would find only lame and useless ones.

In the intense instant of imagination, when the mind, Shelley says, is a fading coal that which I was is that which I am and that which in possibility I may come to be. So in the future, the sister of the past, I may see [187] myself as I sit here now but by reflection from that which then I shall be.

Thinking is not yet fully understood.

The mind generally does not compulsively continue to unearth additional options. It sacrifices concepts in order to reach a speedy decision.