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The study of nature is interwoven with the highest mind. You should never trifle with nature.
I don't know very much, but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it. I know what I think about an actor or an actress, and am not interested in what anybody else thinks. My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.
Keep violence in the mind Where it belongs.
In youth open your mind, And let all learning in; Words the head does not shape Are worthless, out and in. Words wit has not salted,No nearer the heart than the lip, Are nothing more than wind, A puppy's insolent yelp.
Boston is a state of mind.
Let us reunite ourselves with our better mind and with the world through science; and let it be one of our angelic revenges on the Philistines, who among their other sins are theguiltyauthors of Fenianism, tofound at Oxford a chair of Celtic, and to send, through the gentle ministration of science, a message of peace to Ireland.
Stafford Cripps has a brilliant mind, until he makes it up.
Her mind was less difficult to develop. She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper.
[Poesy] was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting theshows ofthingstothedesires ofthemind; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
The voice of the people hath some divineness in it, else how should so many men agree to be of one mind? Bacon
There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and mastersthefearofdeath. And therefore death is no such terrible enemy, when a man hath so many attendants about him that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honour aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.
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.
It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth Man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. See Berkeley 79:7. 48
It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.
There are two modes of acquiring knowledge, namely, by reasoning and experience. Reasoning draws a conclusion and makes us grant the conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, nor does it remove doubt so that the mind may rest on the intuition of truth unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.
I sometimesthink that running hasgiven me a glimpse of the greatest freedom a man can ever know, because it results in the simultaneous liberation of both body and mind.
The test and use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of the mind.
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.
Age is deformed, youth unkind, We scorn their bodies, they our mind.
Watch against inordinate sensual delight in even the
If I am out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.
Whatever is immediately perceived is an idea: and can any idea exist out of the mind?
Broad of Church and broad of Mind, Broad before and broad behind, A keen ecclesiologist, A rather dirty Wykehamist.
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee.
For the bewitching of naughtiness doth obscure things that are honest; and the wanderings of concupiscence doth undermine the simple mind.He being made perfect in a short time, fulfilled a long time.
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being intheformof God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
For God hath not given us thespirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Serve thee with a quiet mind.
The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies, With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies, When love is done. See Lyly 523:12.
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like winethrough water, and altered the colour of my mind.
The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained bya few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.
In the natural fog of the good man's mind.
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting than fear. Burke
Should auld acquaintance be forgot And never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And auld lang syne!
Whene'er to drink you are inclin'd, Or cutty sarks run in your mind, Think, ye may buy the joys o'er dear 172 RememberTam o' Shanter's mare.
Years steal Fire from the mind as vigour from the limb; And life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.
But I have lived, and have not lived in vain: My mind may loose its force, my blood its fire, And my frame perish even in conquering pain; But there is that within me which shall tire Torture and Time, and breathe when I expire. Something unearthly, which they deem not of, Like the remembered tone of a mute lyre, Shall on their softened spirits sink, and move In hearts all rocky now the late remorse of love.
The mind can make Substance, and people planets of its own With beings brighter than have been, and give A breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.
Burn, with Athens and with Rome, A sacred city of the mind.
Fain would I wed a fair young man that night and day could please me, When my mind or body grieved that had the power to ease me. Maids are full of longing thoughtsthat breed a bloodless sickness, And that, oft I hear men say, is only cured by quickness.
Intellectuel = celui qui se de double. Intellectual: someone whose mind watches itself.
A mind that has seen, and suffered, and done, speaks to us of what it has tried and conquered.
This is the truth! In order to achieve this total painting, whichrequirestheactive cooperationof all thesenses, a painting which is a plastic state of mind of the universal, you must paint, as drunkards sing and vomit, sounds, noises and smells!
She had a mannish manner of mind and face, able to feel hot and think cold.
Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind.
Have Ithaka always in your mind Your arrival there is what you are destined for.
It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused bya constant flow of fraudulent advertising isno trivial thing.There ismorethan one way to conquer a country.
Mens cuiusque is est quisque: non ea figura quae digito demonstrari potest. The mind is the true self, not the person that can be pointed to with the finger.
Virtue's no more in womankind But the green sickness of the mind. Philosophy, their new delight, A kind of charcoal appetite.
Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
Love's but the frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined; A sickly flame, which if not fed expires; And feeding, wastes in self-consuming fires.
Music alone with sudden charms can bind The wand'ring sense, and calm the troubled mind.
BRADYISM: A multisibling sensibility derived from having grown up in large familiessymptoms of Bradyism include a facility for mind games, emotional withdrawal in situations of overcrowding, and a deeply felt need for a well-defined personal space.
The face the index of a feeling mind.
En perseguirme, Mundo, Que interesas? En que te ofendo, cuando so lo intento poner bellezas en mi entendimiento y no mi entendimiento en las bellezas? World, in hounding me, what do you gain? How can it harm you if I choose, astutely, rather to stock my mind with things of beauty, than waste its stock on every beauty's claim?
Este natural impulso que Dios puso en m|su Majestad sabe por que y para que ; y sabe que le he pedido que apague la luz de mi entendimiento dejando so lo lo que baste para guardar su Ley, pues lo dema s sobra, (seg u n algunos) en una mujer; y aun hay quien dice que dan a. This natural impulse which God has implanted in meonly His Majesty knows whyand wherefore and His Majesty also knows that I have prayed to Him to extinguish the light of my mind, only leaving sufficient to keep His Law, since any more is overmuch, so some say, in a woman, and there are even those who say it is harmful.
Jobling, there are chords in the human mind.
L'homme est ne pour la socie te ; se parez-le, isolez-le, ses ide es se de suniront, son caracte' re se tournera, mille affections ridicules s'e le' veront dans son coeur; des 274 pense es extravagantes germeront dans son esprit, comme les ronces dans une terre sauvage. Man is born to live in society: separate him, isolate him, and his ideas disintegrate, his character changes, a thousand ridiculous affectations rise up in his heart; extreme thoughts take hold in his mind, like the brambles in a wild field.
For God's sake, hold your tongue, and let me love, Or chide my palsy, or my gout, My five grey hairs, or ruined fortune flout, With wealth your state, your mind with arts improve, Take you a course, get you a place, Observe his honour, or his grace, Or the King's real, or his stamped face Contemplate; what you will, approve, So you will let me love.
If at times my eyes are lenses through which the brain explores constellations of feeling my ears yielding like swinging doors admit princes to the corridors into the mind, do not envy me. I have a beast on my back.
And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.
Her pencil drew whate'er her soul designed, And oft thehappydraft surpassed the image in her mind.
For those whom God to ruin has designed, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
Thou tyrant, tyrant Jealousy, Thou tyrant of the mind!
Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to th'appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.
Ourexcessive tolerance of suicide is due to the fact that, since the state of mind from which it springs is a general one, we cannot condemn it without condemning ourselves; we are too saturated with it not partly to excuse it.
My mind to me a kingdom is; Such perfect joy therein I find That it excels all other bliss That world affords or grows by kind. Though much I want which most men have, Yet still my mind forbids to crave.
No princely pomp, no wealthy store, No force to win the victory, No wily wit to salve a sore, No shape to feed each gazing eye; To none of these I yield as thrall. For why my mind doth serve for all.
Some weigh their pleasure by their lust, Their wisdom by their rage of will, Their treasure is their only trust; And cloake' d craft their store of skill. But all the pleasure that I find Is to maintain a quiet mind.
One of the strongest motives that lead people to give their lives to art and science is the urge to flee from everyday life, with its drab and deadly dullness and thus to unshackle the chains of one's own transient desires, which supplant one another in an interminable succession so long as the mind is fixed on the horizon of daily environment.
I aspire to give no more than a faithful account of men and things asthey have mirrored themselves inmy mind.
There's no pleasure i' living, if you're to be corked up for iver, and onlydribbleyourmind out by thesly, likea leaky barrel.
In a mind charged with an eager purpose and an unfinished vindictiveness, there is no room for new feelings.
Our life is determined for usand it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing and only thinkof bearing what islaid uponus and doing what isgivenusto do.
When a poet's mind isperfectlyequipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiencein the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes.
When you notice a cat in profound meditation The reason, I tell you, is always the same: His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name: His ineffable effable Effanineffable Deep and inscrutable singular name.
Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden. My words echo Thus, in your mind.
Since our concern was speech, and speech impelled us To purify the dialect of the tribe And urge the mind to aftersight and foresight.
I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allen Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms.I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fibre and liquidsand Imight even be said to possess a mind.I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imaginationindeed, everything and anything except me.
In sculpture, did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoo« n how it might be made different? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.
Each individual work serves as an expression of our most personal state of mind at that particular moment and of the inescapable, imperative need for release by means of an appropriate act of creation: in the rhythm, form, colour and mood of a picture.
A Coney Island of the Mind.
He believed in sudden conversion, a belief which may be right, but which is peculiarlyattractive to the half- baked mind.
Cricket remains for me the game of games, the sanspareil, the great metaphor, the best marriage ever devisedof mind and body For meit remainstheProust of pastimes, the subtlest and most poetic, the most past- and-present; whose beauty can lie equally in days, in a whole, or in one tiny phrase, a blinding split second.
Despite what even manyartists appear to believe, art is not and should not be merelya skill. It should actually be completelyand utterly the language of our feelings, our frame of mind; indeed, even of our devotion and our prayers.
The mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.
You maydream freely whenyou listen tomusic as well as when you look at painting.When you read a book you are the slave of the author's mind.
I must have women. There is nothing unbends the mind like them.
Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.
Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts A graphical representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity.Lines of light ranged inthenon- space of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding.
Moloch whose mind is pure machinery! Moloch whose blood isrunning money! Moloch whose fingers are ten armies! Moloch whose breast is a cannibal dynamo! Moloch whose ear is a smoking tomb!
A white face goes with a white mind.Occasionally a black face goes with a white mind.Very seldom a white face will have a black mind.
It was not the matter of the work, but the mind that went into, that countedand the manwho was not content to do small things well would leave great things undone.
Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.
Bright grayness.Both the clothes and hair were neat and gray. The gray-framed spectacles magnified the gray hazel eyes, but there was no grayness in the mind.
If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of humanreasonfor then we would know the mind of God.
There is an unseemly exposure of mind, as well as of the body.
Ane bow that is ay bent Worthis ay unsmart and dullis on the string; Sa dois the mynd that is ay diligent In ernistfull thochtis and in studying.
Carving is interrelated masses conveying an emotion: a perfect relationship between the mind and the colour, light and weight which is the stone, made by the hand which feels.
Talk about those subjects you have had long in your mind, and listen to what others say about subjects you have studied but recently. Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.
They must have hearts very dry and tough, from whom the melody of psalms doth not sometime draw that wherein a mind religiously affected delighteth.
Dewey has no inner reserve of knowledge on which to draw for his thinking. A man couldn't wear a moustache like that without having it affect his mind.
Historians spend their lives and lavish ink Explaining how great commonwealths collapse From great defects of policyperhaps The cause is sometimes simpler than they think. Have more states perished, then, For having shackled the enquiring mind, Than those who, in their folly not less blind, Trusted the servile womb to breed free men?
O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap May who ne'er hung there.
The fine pleasure is not to do a thing but to feel that you could If I could but get on, if I could but produce a work I should not mind its being buried, silenced, and going no further; but it kills me to be time's eunuch and never to beget.
I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living.
Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body.Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life.
Some experience of popular lecturing had convinced me that the necessity of making things plain to uninstructed people was one of the very best means of clearing up the obscure corners in one's own mind.
I am for encouraging the progress of science in all its branches; and notforawing thehumanmind bystories of raw-head and bloody bones to a distrust of its own vision and to repose implicitly on that of others.
Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body, and stamp no character on the mind.
He who does not mind his belly will hardly mind any thing else.
It iswonderful, when a calculation ismade, how littlethe mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.
Sir, if a man has a mind to prance, hemust studyat Christ- Church and All-Souls.
Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
Mydear friend, clear your mind ofcant You may talk in this manner; it is a mode of talking in Society: but don't think foolishly.
'Tis grown almost a danger to speak true Of any good mind, now:There are so few.
The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano. One should pray to have a sound mind in a sound body.
Zwei Dinge erfu« llen das Gemu« t mit immer neuer und zunehmender Bewunderung und Ehrfurcht, je o« fter und anhaltender sich das Nachdenken damit besch a« ftigt: der bestirnte Himmel u« ber mir, unddas moralische Gesetz in mir. Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within.
Yet the sweet converse of an innocent mind, Whose words are images of thoughts refined, Is my soul's pleasure; and it sure must be Almost the highest bliss of human-kind, When to thy haunts two kindred spirits flee.
I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.
Music is no different from opium. Music affects the human mind in a way that makes peoplethinkof nothing but music and sensual matters Music is a treason to the country, a treason to our youth, and we should cut out all this music and replace it with something instructive.
If there be not in her, a proud mind, a crafty wit, and an indurate heart against God and his truth, my judgment faileth me.
She unbent her mind afterwardsover a book.
L'accent du pays o u' l'on est ne demeure dans l'esprit et dans le c½ur comme dans le langage. The accent of the place in which one was born lingers in the mind and in the heart as it does in one's speech.
I'm not sure if a mental relation with a woman doesn't make it impossible to love her. To know the mind of a woman is to end in hating her.
When you meet Mr. Smith first you think he looks like an over-dressed pirate. Then you begin to think him a character.You wonder at his enormous bulk. Then the utter hopelessness of knowing what Smith is thinking by merely looking at his features gets on your mind and makes the Mona Lisa seem an open book and the ordinary human countenance as superficial as a puddle in the sunlight.
I know men aren't attracted to me by my mind. They're attracted by what I don't mind.
Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.
The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.
He has a vulgar mind.
The mere animal pleasure of travelling in a wild unexplored country is also great The effect of travel ona manwhoseheart isintheright place isthatthemind is made more self-reliant: it becomes more confident of its own resourcesthere isgreater presence of mind The sweat of one's brow is no longer a curse when one works for God: it proves a tonic to the system, and actually a blessing. No one can trulyappreciate the charm of repose unless he has undergone severe exertion.
There are no credentials. They do not even need a medical certificate. They need not be sound either in body or mind. They only require a certificate of birthjust to prove that they were the first of the litter. You would not choose a spaniel on those principles.
We are placing the burdens on the broadest shoulders. I made up my mind that, in forming the Budget, no cupboard should be barer, no lot should be harder to bear.
Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busyand boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from experience.
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world. He that has those two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them will be little the better for anything else. See Juvenal 453:20.
I have always considered that boxing really combines all the finest and highest inclinations of a manactivity, endurance, science, temper, and, last, but not least, presence of mind.
Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast, and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly.
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
But even Archimedes was not free from the prevailing notion that geometry was degraded by being employed to produce anything useful. It was with difficulty that he was induced to stoop from speculation to practice. He was half ashamed of those inventions which were the wonder of hostile nations, and always spoke of them slightingly as mere amusements, as trifles in which a mathematician might be suffered to relax his mind after intense application to the higher parts of his science.
Alone stood brave Horatius, But constant still in mind; Thrice thirty thousand foes before, And the broad flood behind.
There is one [disease] which is widespread, and from whichmenrarelyescape.This disease varies indegree in different men I refer to this: that every person thinks his mindmore clever and more learned than it is I have found that this disease has attacked many an intelligent person Theyexpress themselves [not only] upon the science with which they are familiar, but upon other sciences about which they know nothing If met with applauseso does the disease itself become aggravated.
The trouble with women like me isthey can't keep their nerves out of the job in hand I walk about with a mind full of ghosts of saucepans and primus stoves and 'Will there be enough to go round?' I loathe myself, today. I detest this woman who'superintends' you and rushes about, slamming doors and slopping waterall untidy with her blouse out and her nailsgrimed.
Nothing is so conducive to greatness of mind as the ability to examine systematically and honestly everything that meets us in life.
He hath a body able to endure More than we can inflict: and therefore now Let us assail his mind another while.
All things that move between the quiet poles Shall be at my command: emperors and kings Are but obeyed in their several provinces, Nor can they raise the wind, or rend the clouds; But his dominion that exceeds in this Stretcheth as far as doth the mind of man; A sound magician is a demi-god.
As lines so loves oblique may well Themselves in every angle greet But ours so truly parallel, Though infinite can never meet. Therefore the love which doth us bind, But fate so enviously debars, Is the conjunction of the mind, And opposition of the stars.
My mind was once the true survey Of all these meadows fresh and gay; And in the greenness of the grass Did see its hopes as in a glass.
What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenitya soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.
[Jeremy] Bentham held no post at the mercy of bankers and tripe sellers; he was a man of independent means, a lawyer and politician and a heretic in general practice. It is impossible to imagine such a man occupying a chair at Harvard or Princeton.Hehad a hand intoomany pies; he was too rebellious and contumacious; he had too little respect for authority, either academic or worldly. Moreover, his mind was too wide for a professor; he Mencken could never remain safely in a groove; the whole field of social organization invited his inquiries and experiments.
How few the days are that hold the mind in place; like a tapestry hanging on four or five hooks. Especially the day you stop becoming; the day you merelyare. I suppose it's when the principles dissolve, and instead of the general gray of what ought to be you begin to see what is The word 'Now' is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks.
We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments.
Hence vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly without father bred, How little you bestead, Or fill the fixe' d mind with all your toys; Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the sunbeams.
These thoughts may startle well, but not astound The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion conscience.
Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind With all thy charms, although this corporal rind Thou hast immanacl'd, while heav'n sees good.
Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless muse; Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th'abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.
Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam; purging and unscaling her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous birds, with those also that love thetwilight, flutterabout, amazed at what she means.
The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n.
Where there is then no good For which to strive, no strife can grow up there From faction; for none sure will claim in hell Prece dence, none, whose portion is so small Of present pain, that with ambitious mind Will covet more.
A grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and discharged; what burden then?
Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed, which declares his dignity, And the regard of Heav'n on all his ways.
But knowledge is as food, and needs no less Her temperance over appetite, to know In measure what the mind may well contain, Oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turns Wisdom to folly, as nourishment to wind.
The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day. Be famous then By wisdom; as thy empire must extend, So let extend thy mind o'er all the world.
O impotence of mind, in body strong! But what is strength without a double share Of wisdom, vast, unwieldy, burdensome, Proudly secure, yet liable to fall By weakest subtleties, not made to rule, But to subserve where wisdom bears command.
Salve to thy sores, apt words have power to suage The tumours of a troubl'd mind, And are as Balm to fester'd wounds.
Calm of mind, all passion spent.
The chief aim of their constitution is that, whenever public needs permit, all citizens should be free, so far as possible, to withdraw their time and energy from the service of the body, and devote themselves to the freedom and culture of the mind. For that, they think, is the real happiness of life.
Venice will linger in your mindand wherever you go in life you will feel somewhere over your shoulder, a pink, castellated, shimmering presence, the domes and riggings and crooked pinnacles of the Serenissima. There's romance for you! There's the lust and dark wine of Venice! No wonder George Eliot's husband fell into the Grand Canal.
Between complete socialism and communism there is no difference whatever in my mind.Communism is in fact the completion of socialism; when that ceases to be militant and becomes triumphant, it will be communism.
The curse of Scottish literature is the lack of a whole language, which finally means the lack of a whole mind.
The laird o'Cockpen, he's proud an' he's great, His mind is ta'en up wi' things o'the State.
I have a bone to pick with Fate. Come here and tell me, girlie, Do you think my mind is maturing late, Or simply rotted early?
For Palestinians,PLO is a homeland of the mind.
Today, children,Iam going totell you about thehistoryof Mr.Blackmaninthreesentences.Inthebeginning hehad the land and the mind and the soul together.On the secondday, they took thebodyaway tobarter itforsilver coins.On the third day, seeing that he was still fighting back, they brought priests and educators to bind his mind and soul so that these foreigners could more easily take his land and produce.
The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I. Never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.
Make up your mind dearheart.Do you want to be a great actor or a household word?
Put your brilliant mind to work fordresses for public appearancesthat I would wear if Jack were President of France.
Little subconscious mind, say I each night, bring home the bacon.
The novel is practicallya Protestant form of art; it is the product of the free mind, of the autonomous individual.
The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life, and which in some cases can even survive a visit to the real countries which they are supposed to represent.
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
Ere man's corruptions made him wretched, he Was born most noble that was born most free; Each of himself was lord; and unconfin'd Obey'd the dictates of his godlike mind.
Science provides a vision of reality seen from the perspective of reason, a perspective that sees the vast order of the universe, living and non-living matter, as a material system governed by rules that can be known by the human mind.It is a powerful vision, formal and austere but strangely silent about many of the questions that deeplyconcernus. Scienceshowsuswhat existsbut not what to do about it.
Il y a deux sortes d'esprits, l'un ge ome trique, et l'autre que l'on peut appeler de finesse. Le premier a des vues lentes, dures et inflexibles; mais le dernier a une souplesse de pense e. There are two kinds of mind, one mathematical, the other what one might call the intuitive. The first takes a slow, firm, inflexible view, but the latter has flexibility of thought.
La nettete de l'esprit cause aussi la nettete de la passion; c'est pourquoi un esprit grand et net aime avec ardeur, et il voit distinctement ce qu'il aime. Clarity of mind results in clarity of passion; that is whya great mind loves ardentlyand sees distinctly what it loves.
Dans les champs de l'observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits pre pare s. Where observation is concerned, chance favours only the prepared mind.
In all our studies of the brain, no mechanism has been discovered that can force the mind to think, or the individual to believe, anything. The mind continues free. That is a statement I have long considered. I have made every effort to disprove it, without success.
That's the classical mind at work, runs fine inside but looks dingy on the surface.
I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig- tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked.One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poetI saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig-tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.
Lo! the poor Indian, whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way; Yet simple Nature to his hope has giv'n, Behind the cloud-topped hill, an humbler heav'n.
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest, In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer, Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little, or too much.
Alas! in truth the man but changed his mind, Perhaps was sick, in love, or had not dined.
If the ocean was pure mind and I was a wave, I would be in terror if Itried to distinguish myself fromthe water that produced me.What is a wave without water, and what is a mind without God?
Be to her virtues very kind; Be to her faults a little blind; Let all her ways be unconfined; And clap your padlockon her mind.
Le bonheur est salutaire pour les corps, mais c'est le chagrin qui de veloppe les forces de l'esprit. Happiness is healthy for the body, but it is sorrow which enhances the forces of the mind.
Every occupation, unless it employs the whole mind and satisfies the human creative instinct, is to some extent absurd; and abouttheadvertising business what I chiefly disliked was not so much the work I did as its general atmosphere of unreality.We dealt in fairy-goldin fugitive dreams and illusions.
Pantagrue lismeest certaine gaiete d'esprit confite en me pris des choses fortuites. Pantagruelism is a certain liveliness of mind made in contempt of chance happenings.
The mind is a museum to be looted at night.
Thankstohis bodily formand thankstohismind, [man] is a universal machine, capable of an infinite diversity of movement.
Information, freefrominterestorprejudice, freefromthe vanity of the writer or the influence of a Government, is as necessary to the human mind as pure air and water to the human body.
Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life.
I am an instrument in the shape of a woman trying to translate pulsations into images for the relief of the body and the reconstruction of the mind.
Reason, an ignis fatuus in the mind, Which leaving light of nature, sense behind, Pathless and dangerous wandering ways it takes, Through error's fenny bogs and thorny brakes; Whilst the misguided follower climbs, with pain, Mountains of whimsy heaped in his own brain.
I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
The mind shuttles and reminds: we go this way only once; and shuttles again and rejoins: once is enough.
Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answerscan, asa rule, be knowntobetrue, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves; because these questions enlarge our conception of what is possible, enrich our intellectual imagination, and diminish the dogmatic assurance which closes the mind against speculation; but above all because, through the greatness of the universe which philosophy contemplates, the mind also is rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.
The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know.
I've got a one-dimensional mind.
As Michael read the Gaelic scroll It seemed the story of the soul; And those who wrought, lest there should fail From earth the legend of the Gael, Seemed warriors of Eternal Mind Still holding in a world gone blind, From which belief and hope had gone, The lovely magic of its dawn.
The skull that housed white angels and had vision Of daybreak through the gateways of the mind.
We [the English] seem to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.
If any writer thinks the world is full of middle-class people of nice sensibilities, then he is out of his mind.
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
You will see Coleridgehe who sits obscure In the exceeding lustre and the pure Intense irradiation of a mind, Which, through its own internal lighting blind, Flags wearily through darkness and despair A cloud-encircled meteor of the air, A hooded eagle among blinking owls You will see Huntone of those happy souls Which are the salt of the earth, and without whom This world would smell like what it isa tomb.
[a character in Mr Puff's play within a play,'The Spanish Armanda'] Perdition catch my soul but I do love thee. : Haven't I heard that line before? : No, I fancy not.Where pray? :Yes, I think there is something like it in Othello. : Gad! now you put me in mind on't, I believe there isbut that's of no consequence; all that can be said is, that two people happened to hit upon the same thoughtand Shakespeare made use of it first, that's all.
A lamentable tune is the sweetest music to a woeful mind.
I readilyadmit that I am often more serious than I should be at my age or in my present circumstances, yet I know from experiencethat Iamnever lessgiventomelancholy thanwhen I am keenlyapplying the feeble powers of my fallen to be the laughing stock of children.
Facility is a dangerous thing.Where there is too much technical ease the brain stops criticising. Don't let the hand fall into a smart way of putting the mind to sleep.
In ease of body, peace of mind, all the different ranks of life are nearly upon a level and the beggar who suns himself by the side of the highway, possesses that security which kings are fighting for.
An improper mind is a perpetual feast.
This rortie wretched city Sair come down frae its auld hiechts The hauf o't smug, complacent, Lost til all pride of race or spirit, The tither wild and rouch as ever In its secret hairt But lost alsweill, the smeddum tane, The man o'independent mind has cap in hand the day Sits on its craggy spine And drees the wind and rain That nourished all its genius Weary wi centuries This empty capital snorts like a great beast Caged in its sleep, dreaming of freedom.
A clear, attentive mind Has no meaning but that Which sees is truly seen.
In ten thousand years the Sierras Will be dryand dead, home of the scorpion. Ice-scratched slabs and bent trees. No paradise, no fall, Only the weathering land The wheeling sky, Man, with his Satan Scouring the chaos of the mind. Oh Hell!
A short neckdenotes a good mind You see, the messages go quicker to the brain because they've shorter to go.
Different living is not living in different places But creating in the mind a map.
The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known. For a man by nothing is so well bewrayed, As by his manners.
Summum Mentis bonum est Dei cognitio, et summa Mentis virtus Deum cognoscere. The greatest good of the mind is the knowledge of God, and the greatest virtue of the mind is to know God.
In vita itaque apprime utile est, intellectum seu Rationem, quantum possumus, perficere, et in hoc uno summa hominis felicitas seu beatitudo consistit; quippe beatitudo nihil aliud est, quam ipsa animi acquiescentia quae ex Dei intuitiva cognitione oritur. It is therefore extrememly useful in life to perfect as much as we can the intellect or reason, and of this alone doesthegreatest happiness or blessedness of man exist: for blessedness is nothing else than satisfaction of mind which arises from the intuitive knowledge of God.
La force de l'esprit ne se de veloppe toute entie' re qu'en attaquant la puissance. The mind fully develops its faculties when it attacks power.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
I have heard Will Honeycomb say, A Woman seldom Writes her Mind but in her Postscript.
L'esprit et le ge nie perdent vingt-cinq pour cent de leur valeur, en de b arquant en Angleterre. The mind and genius lose twenty-five percent of their value on entry into England.
Like a dull scholar, I behold, in love, An ancient aspect touching a new mind. It comes, it blooms, it bears its fruit and dies. This trivial trope reveals a way of truth. Our bloom isgone.We are the fruit thereof.
The poet represents the mind in the act of defending us against itself.
Even though his tongue acquire the Southern knack, he will still have a strong Scots accent of the mind.
Vex not thou the poet's mind With thy shallow wit: Vex not thou the poet's mind; For thou canst not fathom it.
This truth within thy mind rehearse, That in a boundless universe Is boundless better, boundless worse.
Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before.
I am going a long way With these thou se'stif indeed I go (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt) To the island-valley of Avilion; Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies Deep-meadowed, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crowed with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.
All arts are taught by degrees. The first process in art of the painter is the composition of colours. Let your mind be afterwards applied to the study of the mixtures.
Extensive travelling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
The poem in the rock and The poem in the mind Are not one. It was in dying I tried to make them so.
I fled Him, down the nights and down the days; I fled Him, down the arches of the years; I fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways Of my own mind; and in the midst of tears I hid from Him, and under running laughter. 855
To thinkofone's absent love is verysweet; but it becomes monotonous I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.
A man's mind will very generally refuse to make itself up until it be driven and compelled by emergency.
They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week to make it up.
Clarence's mind was like a many-legged, wingless insect that had long and tediously been struggling to climb up the walls of a slick-walled porcelain basin; and now a sudden impatient wash of water swept it downthe drain.
Sir Henry Wottonwas also a most dear lover, and a frequent practiser of the art of angling; of which he would say,'it was anemployment forhisidletimea rest to his mind, a cheerer of his spirits, a diverter of sadness, a calmer of unquiet thoughts, a moderator of passions, a procurer of contentedness; and that it begat habits of peace and patience in those that professed and practised it.'
I have been told, both in approval and accusation, that I seemto loveall mycharacters.What Idoinwriting of any character istotry toenter intothemind, heart and skinof a human being who is not myself.Whether this happens to be a man ora woman, old or young, with skin blackor white, the primary challenge lies in making the jump itself. It is the act of a writer's imagination that I set most high.
I have horrible nightmares of Sir Almwroth Wright's limp sentences wandering through the arid desert of his mind looking for dropped punctuation marks.
Perhaps true knowledge only comes of death by torture in the country of the mind.
In all directions stretched the Great Australian Emptiness, in which the mind is the least of possessionsand the march of material ugliness does not raise a quiver from the average nerves. It was the exaltation of the'average'that made me panic most.
Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them.It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
Dear Lord and Father of mankind, Forgive our foolish ways! Re-clothe us in our rightful mind, In purer lives thy service find, In deeper reverence praise
Unless there is a new mind there cannot be a new line, the old will go on repeating itself with recurring deadliness:
and there grows in the mind a scent, it may be, of locust blossoms whose perfume is itself a wind moving to lead the mind away.
Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind.
Iam nottrying totell a story.Yet perhapsit might be done in that way. A mind thinking. They might be islands of lightislands in the stream that I am trying to convey; life itself going on.
For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing often-times The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused, Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, And the round ocean and the living air, And the blue sky, and in the mind of man.
From my pillow, looking forth by light Of moon or favouring stars, I could behold The antechapel where the statue stood Of Newton with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind for ever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought alone. 925
Thy friends are exultations, agonies, And love, and man's unconquerable mind.
Our master Caesar is in the tent Where the maps are spread, His eyes fixed upon nothing, A hand under his head. 934 Like a long-legged fly upon the stream His mind moves upon silence.
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