Quotes About Mind

It's strange how the human mind swings back and forth, from one extreme to another. Does truth lie at some point of the pendulum's swing, at a point where it never rests, not in the dull perpendicular mean where it dangles in the end like a windless flag, but at an angle, nearer one extreme than another? If only a miracle could stop the pendulum at an angle of sixty degrees, one would believe the truth was there.

It's strange how the human mind swings back and forth, from one extreme to another. Does truth lie at some point of the pendulum's swing, at a point where it never rests, not in the dull perpendicular mean where it dangles in the end like a windless flag, but at an angle, nearer one extreme than another?

When there was a choice between love of a woman and hate of a man, her mind could cherish only one emotion, for her love might be a subject for laughter, but no one ever had ever mocked her hatred.

The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body to possess another person without pride or to be possessed without humiliation.

and then beginning to go back to what you can't even remember.

If a woman is in one's thoughts all day, one should not have a dream of her at night.

I know myself, and I know the depth of my selfishness. I cannot be at ease (and to be at ease is my chief wish) if someone else is in pain, visibly or audibly or tactually. Sometimes this is mistaken by the innocent for unselfishness, when all I am doing is sacrificing a small good - in this case postponement in attending to my hurt - for the sake of a far greater good) a peace of mind when I need think only of myself.

for aren't lovers nearly always innocent? They have committed no crime, they are certain in their own minds that they have done no wrong, 'as long as no one but myself is hurt', the old tag is ready on their lips, and love, of course, excuses everything—so they believe, and so I used to believe in the days when I loved.

The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body to possess another person without pride or be possessed without humiliation.

I laugh at anyone who spends so much time writing about what doesn't exist - mental concepts.

Unlike him, she retained a kind of hope. Hope is an instinct only the reasoning mind can kill. An animal never knows despair.

I had no memory at all of Sarah and I was completely free from anxiety, jealousy, insecurity, hate: my mind was a blank sheet on which somebody had just been on the point of writing a message of happiness. I felt sure that when my memory came back, the writing would continue and that I should be happy.

If a woman is in one's thoughts all day, one should not have to dream of her at night.

Was the secret of lasting youth known only to the criminal mind?

His heart beat and the band played, and inside the lean experienced skull lay childhood.

There are small bits of useless knowledge which stick to one's brain like barnacles to

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards solitude. - Tubal Kain

Judgement of my humours is not always my strongest attribute.' 'You spoke your mind, I spoke mine. No more needs to be said.

Some things, some places perhaps take up their truer existence in the mind.

neuroanatomist

Routine is important, I think. A good routine diverts the mind from morbid imaginings.

The interior of our skulls contain a portal to infinity...of course it's happening in your head but why on earth should that mean it's not real?

Todo cuanto te ha ocurrido es real, incluso tus sueños. Ellos sobre todo

I'm still out there. In my head. I have to sort it out or I'll never come home.