Quotes About Mind

Cada impulso que intentamos aniquilar germina en la mente y nos envenena

In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. The thoroughly well-informed man—that is the modern ideal. And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

You have a dreamer's look; you must not dream. It is only sick people who dream.

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. 

We are punished for our refusals. Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us.

You always want to know what one has been doing. I always want to forget what I have been doing.

But, to the philosopher, my dear Gerald, women represent the triumph of matter over mind - just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.

The great events of the world take place in the Brain. It is in the Brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.

Für den Philosophen sind die Frauen der Triumph der Materie über den Geist, - genau wie die Männer der Triumph des Geistes über die Moral sind.

Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices." "The

Of course I need not remind you how fluid a thing thought is with me-- with us all-- and of what an evanescent substance are our emotions made.

It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain.

And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

To the philosopher women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

Alma e corpo, corpo e alma, como eram misteriosos! Havia animalismo na alma, e o corpo possuía momentos de espiritualidade.

I said in Dorian Gray that the great sins of the world take place in the brain: but it is in the brain that everything takes place. We know now that we do not see with the eyes or hear with the ears. They are really channels for the transmission, adequate or inadequate, of sense impressions. It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.

Se dice que los grandes acontecimientos del mundo tienen lugar en el cerebro. Es en el cerebro, y sólo en el cerebro, donde los grandes pecados del mundo tienen lugar también.

The thoroughly well-informed man--that is the modern ideal. And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

Das wirkliche Leben war Chaos, aber es lag eine schreckliche Logik in der Phantasie.

In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, an so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. The thoroughly well-informed man - that is the modern ideal.

In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

Poetry comes fine spun from a mind at peace.

Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader...