Quotes About Mind

words are only as valid as the mind that chooses them, so that of essence all prose is a form of deception.

Montaigne blessed the form when he said, "If I knew my own mind, I would not make essays. I would make decisions.

But he realized that Haiti was now so embedded in his mind and heart that he could never abandon the country so quickly.

There's no need for me to enter your mind, just sit at the edges and look for leakage." "Leakage?" Veran looked at his daughter. "You magicians have some interesting terms. Not particularly reassuring ones.

Words like 'always' and 'never' were meaningful to my father, who thought in absolutes and whose mind consequently made great leaps in antagonistic directions when it leapt at all.

Everybody's at war with different things…I'm at war with my own heart sometimes.

Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time.

Each of us has a terrorist inside, a mad impulse to abandon that which is rightfully ours, to blow ourselves to smithereens. You cannot outsmart it, for it has hijacked the mind that you use. It believes it is you; you believe you are it.

I believe it has never been my misfortune to be placed where I lost my presence of mind--unless indeed it has been where thrown in strange company, particularly of ladies.

The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless.

But it's atheists who say that the world wasn't made by anyone, and you say you're not an atheist . . . I'm not because I can't bring myself to believe that all these things we see around us—the way trees and fruits grow, and the solar system, and our brains—came about by chance. They're too well made. And therefore there must have been a creating mind. God.

The print does not always have the same shape as the body that impressed it, and it doesn't always derive from the pressure of a body. At times it reproduces the impression a body has left in our mind: it is the print of an idea.

Nebulat ergo cogito.

Nothing can dispel from my mind the most reassuring thought that this world is the creation of a shadowy god whose shadow I prolong. Faith leads to Absolute Optimism.

Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the state (attributed to James Jesus Angleton)

Der Teufel ist nicht der Fürst der Materie, der Teufel ist die Anmaßung des Geistes, der Glaube ohne ein Lächeln, die Wahrheit, die niemals vom Zweifel erfasst wird.

Ma da questo libro quante menti corrotte come la tua trarrebbero l'estremo sillogismo, per cui il riso è il fine dell'uomo! Il riso distoglie, per alcuni istanti, il villano dalla paura. Ma la legge si impone attraverso la paura, il cui nome vero è timor di Dio.

Ä°yi bir av bu, William Birader, ama geceleri dikkatli olun.' 'Niçin gündüzleri deÄŸil?' 'Çünkü burada gündüzleri bedenler yararl? otlarla iyileÅŸtirilir; geceleriyse kafalar zehirli otlarla hasta edilir.

Saul Bellow escribió una vez que, en una época de locura, creerse inmunes a la locura es una forma de locura.

Así es como conoce Dios el mundo, porque lo ha concebido en su mente, o sea, en cierto sentido, desde fuera, antes de crearlo, mientras que nosotros no logramos conocer su regla, porque vivimos dentro de él y lo hemos encontrado ya hecho.

Into the echo chamber of his own mind, where he was always able to find a justification for the most terrible actions.

Study and think and improve your mind, and keep it clear of all this fog of hatred and propaganda

Lanny thought it was just as well that F.D.R. didn't have to undergo the ordeal of another interview with that hysterical Frenchman, who called himself a successor to Joan of Arc and whose mind had come straight out of that period of history.

We grant that American citizens who have millions of dollars have a right to use them to poison the public mind; but surely we don't have to grant the right of foreigners to come in and intrigue against us.