My three years in politics was very instructive about the way in which the appetite for political power can destroy a human… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Another powerful principle of our nature, which is the spring of war, is the passion for superiority, for triumph, for power. The… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
The world, and whatever that be which we call the heavens, by the vault of which all things are enclosed, we must… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
No species ... possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by genetic history ... The human mind is a device for survival… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Whatever the Party… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Over the last three centuries, psychologists have been able to define three distinct parts of the human mind: thoughts, emotions, and motivations.… — Benjamin Smith Copy Share Image
And most of all, books. They were, in and of themselves, reasons to stay alive. Every book written is the product of… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“Our little tribal circles, bound by social contracts and selfish mutual need. Everyone working in their own greedy self-interests and huddling together… — David Wong Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness works like a vaccine, boosting natural resilience. You undertake practices that can initially feel odd or counterintuitive. You practise in safe,… — Meg Salter Copy Share Image
Our reliance in this country is on the inquiring, individual human mind. Our strength is founded there; our resilience, our ability to… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
“Grosseteste influenced Roger Bacon's ideas about mathematics and Nature. Bacon wrote hundreds of pages on the subject and, indeed, no historical figure… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads; it has been furthered by gay fellows who heaved dead… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The human mind thinks but to complicate. As soon as one problem is solved, that solution introduces new complications, other problems that… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“There are times when the marvels of scientific advancement expedite our processes, making our lives easier. Modern technology provides machines that can… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much. Language consists of five basic sounds produced by… — Eckhart Tolle 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
“I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Until recently we’ve only been able to speculate about story's persuasive effects. But over the last several decades psychology has begun a… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
e idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naive. However, I am also not a "Freethinker"… — Albert Einstein 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 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
“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
“Those of us who are working with these strange substances trying to find the best way of using them, both in the… — Cameron Adams 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
“From the study of the development of human intelligence, in all directions, and through all times, the discovery arises of a great… — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
“The range of the human mind, the scale and depth of the metaphors the mind is capable of manufacturing as it grapples… — Barry Holstun Lopez Copy Share Image
“To the secular arm, therefore, be delivered any and every book which, catering for the youngsters, throttles the life of the old… — Edward Clodd Copy Share Image
To better understand God we must first shatter our own idea of God - maybe even day after day. Maybe he's too… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“There seem, in fact, to be only two views we can hold about awe. Either it is a mere twist in the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The happiest moments in our lives are when we are playing just like children, when we are singing and dancing, when we… — Miguel Ruiz Copy Share Image
We do not ask what hope of gain makes a little bird warble, since we know that it takes delight in singing… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Among the many inconsistencies which folly produces or infirmity suffers in the human mind, there has often been observed a manifest and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“God cautions us in Isaiah 55:9 that his ways are not ours and his thoughts are higher than our thoughts (undoubtedly one… — Ron Brackin Copy Share Image
This is the most important thing I will ever say to you. The human mind is the ultimate testing device. You can… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“Again, we may decry the color-prejudice of the South, yet it remains a heavy fact. Such curious kinks of the human mind… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect. As I have already said, religious fundamentalism… — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
“Woman’s demand for equal suffrage is based largely on the contention that woman must have the equal right in all affairs of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
