Quotes of: Human-mind Keyword

The issue of human rights is one of the most fundamental human issues and also one of the most sensitive and controversial.

Ali Khamenei

What first separates a leader from a normal human being? A leader knows who they are as a human being.

Stan Slap

Love is the grounding of our existence as humans and is the basic emotioning in our systemic identity as human beings.

Love

The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.

Viktor Korchnoi

Although now long estranged, Man is not wholly lost nor wholly changed. Dis-graced he may be, yet is not de-throned, and keeps the rags of lordship once he owned: Man, Sub-creator, the refracted Light through whom is splintered from a single White to...

Tolkien on Fairy-stories

Cognitive science has something of enormous importance to contribute to human freedom: the ability to learn what our unconscious conceptual systems are like and how our cognitive unconscious functions. If we do not realize that most of our thought is...

Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought

The confusion of love with abuse is what allows abusers who kill their partners to make the absurd claim that they were driven by the depths of their loving feelings. The news media regrettably often accept the aggressors’ view of these acts, descr...

Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

But if it is true that human minds are themselves to a very great degree the creations of memes, then we cannot sustain the polarity of vision we considered earlier; it cannot be "memes versus us," because earlier infestations of memes have already p...

Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life

I find it very difficult to talk here now because I'm watching the sea all the time. The sea always makes me watch it all the time. I've spent hours and hours not just on the sea but just watching wave after wave come in. If it's an image of anything...

William Golding

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

William Cobbett

[At the scene of a murder] The cats' bloodthirst was normal; it was the way God had made them. They were hunters, they killed for food and to train their young--well maybe sometimes for sport. But this violent act by some unknown human had nothing to...

Cat in the Dark

...people who believe in God think God has put human beings on earth because they think human beings are the best animal, but human beings are just an animal and they will evolve into another animal, and that animal will be cleverer and it will put h...

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

We are aberrations—beings born undead, neither one thing nor another, or two things at once … uncanny things that have nothing to do with the rest of creation, horrors that poison the world by sowing our madness everywhere we go, glutting dayligh...

The Conspiracy Against the Human Race

I squinted at the western sky behind Thaddeus, a blood-red smear melting into blackness. Twisting my neck, I glanced the opposite direction. My teeth clenched at a magnified, round moon nearly as scarlet as the portending sunset, its luminous face ha...

The Tarishe Curse

Our little tribal circles, bound by social contracts and selfish mutual need. Everyone working in their own greedy self-interests and huddling together with their tribe, at war with all those outside who they regard as barely human. What breaks a hum...

This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It

[Hitler] has grasped the falsity of the hedonistic attitude to life. Nearly all western thought since the last war, certainly all “progressive” thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security, and avoidance of ...

George Orwell

Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind.

Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

Great minds think alike because a greater Mind is thinking through them.

Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea.

Genesis

We all have this restful mind, but sometimes our fears and our ego mind get the better of us and we can’t see it.

The Restful Mind

One goal of the mindful caregiver is to find ways to not feel ‘dis-eased’ in the caregiving process.

The Mindful Caregiver: Finding Ease in the Caregiving Journey