Quotes About Mind

The hand is the visible part of the brain.

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more seriously reflection concentrates upon them: the starry heaven above me and the moral law within me.

Phantasie ist unser guter Genius oder unser Dämon.

Human reason, in one sphere of its cognition, is called upon to consider questions, which it cannot decline, as they are presented by its own nature, but which it cannot answer, as they transcend every faculty of the mind. It falls into this difficulty without any fault of its own.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: La felicidad no brota de la razón sino de la imaginación (Immanuel Kant)

reason only perceives that which it produces after its own design;

I cannot, therefore, perceive external things, but can only infer their existence from my own inner perception, by taking the perception as the effect of which something external must be the proximate cause.

Believe me: if you are told that some experience is going to hurt, it will hurt. Much of pain is in the mind, and when a woman absorbs the idea that the act of giving birth is excruciatingly painful—when she gets this information from her mother, her sisters, her married friends, and her physician—that woman has been mentally prepared to feel great agony.

The spiritual aspect of valor is evidenced by composure—calm presence of mind. Tranquility is courage in repose.

Knowledge becomes really such only when it is assimilated in the mind of the learner and shows in his character.

When men's fowls and dogs are lost, they know to seek for them again, but they lose their mind and do not know to seek for it.

Un universo di pensieri attraversò in un secondo la mente di Lucile: 'Forse è lui?' si disse, 'che ha fatto prigioniero Gaston, Mio Dio, quanti francesi avrà ucciso? Quante lacrime saranno state versate a causa sua? é anche vero che se la guerra fosse andata diversamente oggi sarebbe Gaston a entrare da padrone in una casa tedesca. è la guerra, non è colpa di questo ragazzo.

Planes," Florence replied, looking up at the sky. "Won't they leave me the hell alone?" he thundered. He hated the war; it threatened much more than his lifestyle or peace of mind. It continually destroyed the world of the imagination, the only world where he felt happy. It was like a shrill, brutal trumpet shattering the fragile crystal walls he'd taken such pains to build in order to shut out the rest of the world.

I think I have said enough of these horrible cases. There are hundreds of thousands of them, being so many of them finally makes the mind dulled, so that you almost cease to be shocked anymore. I did not imagine that such cruel people existed in the modern world. It would seem that only a rare, insane person like Jack the Ripper would act so.

Only the deeper parts of the mind have so little sense of time.

Odd I should have said those words before and forgotten them. It makes one feel that human beings are just machines after all.

The human mind is a weird place.

You mustn't mind so much. It's all in your head. Well, I live in my head.

I would like to send you to hell. My dear, I live in hell, and have done so since I was a small child. Since I regained my mind I have thought, and dreamt too, of nothing but of killing you. You can do it any time, if you don't mind going to prison.

I know her by intuition as if she were inside my head.

There was a sort of grey dripping figure that kept trying to rise up in my mind and which I ruthlessly violently banished.

There can scarcely be anything worse than surviving something which shatters your mind and leaves you obsessed with revenge.