The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. And the sea is precisely their best vehicle, the only medium through… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
The world is very complicated and it is clearly impossible for the human mind to understand it completely. Man has therefore devised… — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
“The human mind creates a fundamental problem for human existence. The mind can always imagine a better state of the world than… — Thomas Dalton Copy Share Image
“...free-associative sexual libel...is typical of the impulses of religious authoritarians to demonize all heretics by attributing to them every manner of outrage… — Jonathan Kirsch Copy Share Image
Religions are not proved, are not demonstrated, are not established, are not overthrown by logic! They are of all the mysteries of… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
“The source of stillness is in emptiness. All things and the changes they go through are but temporary conditions, which finally return… — Chen Kaiguo Copy Share Image
How very important it is to bring about in the human mind the radical revolution. The crisis is a crisis in consciousness,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Things appear, they would say, as we see them through our limited senses; but they must present entirely different aspects to those… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“The human mind isn’t a computer; it cannot progress in an orderly fashion down a list of candidate moves and rank them… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“The entire history of asceticism proves this to be only too true. The Church, as well as Puritanism, has fought the flesh… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Use them with care, and use them with respect as to the transformations they can achieve, and you have an extraordinary research… — Alexander Shulgin Copy Share Image
“Truly I have looked into the very heart of darkness, and refused to yield to its paralyzing influence, but in spirit I… — helen keller Copy Share Image
Your soul is more magnificent, beautiful, and gigantic than you can possibly imagine. A human mind can only contain a tiny fraction… — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
“Whether the human mind can advance or not, is a question too little discussed, for nothing can be more dangerous than to… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
'The scientific method,' Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, 'is nothing but the normal working of the human mind.' That is to say,… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“more dangerous than guns or bombs are hatred, lack of compassion, and lack of respect for the rights of others. As long… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“See, the human mind is kind of like...a pinata. When it breaks open, there's a lot of surprises inside. Once you get… — Jane Wagner Copy Share Image
Infinity is a way to describe the incomprehensible to the human mind. In a way it notates a mystery. That kind of… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
Thoroughly to unfold the labyrinths of the human mind is an arduous task… In order to dive into those recesses and lay… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
“Humanity is not a word my friend. It is a symbol – a symbol of hope – a symbol of wisdom –… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The human mind has a superglue-like quality: Once a viewpoint has been plucked from the swirling chaos of beliefs and explanations, then… — Charles Hugh Smith Copy Share Image
We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
We don't know why we are here and . . . our role in the universe, and the thought of an infinite… — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
“The human mind is happiest when it is most active in performing the functions which it was intended to perform. One of… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“Isn't human mind a funny thing? A bullet is a bullet, dead is dead. The reduction in probability of your demise is… — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
Everyone everywhere live[s] a confused, bitter search. Reality never matched their dreams; happiness was just around the corner - a corner they… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
Only the human heart can live in present moment awareness. The human mind cannot, because its essential nature is to ponder the… — David Simon Copy Share Image
The human mind is a powerful thing in many ways, but in others it's endlessly fragile—it takes only a single moment of… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
When I think about my own work, there usually is one or the other light bulb moment where there is this flash… — Ken Ono Copy Share Image
I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Every emotion that is in the human mind is there for a positive reason, and they must be used for positive reasons,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“[...]there was always a part of the human mind that was prepared to entertain such notions, particularly at night, in the world… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I have always been fascinated by the human mind, conscious and unconscious - that is what writing and reading is about, too.… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image