The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive.
The first sure symptom of a mind in health Is rest of heart and pleasure felt at home.
The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.
I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.
I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
An editor asked me what led me to write erotica. I replied, "A dirty mind, excess words, and an overactive sacral chakra.
It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.
In my mind and in my heart, I feel okay. I cannot complain that I haven't lived long enough, but I'd like to live longer.
Is there a chance? A fragment of light at the end of the tunnel? A reason to fight? Is there a chance you may change your mind? Or are we ashes and wine?
The mystic, identifying neither with his-her race-religion-gender nor with any mind-made blunder, lives and dies in One's splendor.
We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.
The existence of forgetting has never been proved: we only know that some things do not come to our mind when we want them to.
The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads.
For at the heart of the uniform, reasoning is shaky and elusive: a mind in search of ideas should first stock up on appearances.
Really, this people, only yesterday so intelligent and discerning, seem to have been overcome by a disease of the mind
If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have.
In most people, the term “consciousness” identifies with that socially conditioned Ego. At a number of people this identification is so powerful that they are unaware that their life is governed by a socially conditioned mind.
Reaching beyond ourselves, exceeding our mind is not a simple thing. It is, in fact, impossible–one half of the Ego is trying to exceed the other.
A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.
