There are three means of believing--by inspiration, by reason, and by custom. Christianity, which is the only rational institution, does yet admit… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“We have a fictional “I” that we try to love and protect. We spend most of our life playing this futile game.… — Charlotte Joko Beck Copy Share Image
It is the political task of the social scientist — as of any liberal educator — continually to translate personal troubles into… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
“In order to be company he must display a certain mental activity. But it need not be of a high order. Indeed… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“Only later during her prayers had it come to her how cunning Satan could be. Her love for Marcus could become a… — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
“To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
It is impossible for the mind which is not totally destitute of piety, to behold the sublime, the awful, the amazing works… — Timothy Dwight V Copy Share Image
“The antidote, in so far as it is a matter of individual psychology, is to be found in history, biology, astronomy, and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There is a natural disgust in the minds of nearly all white people to the idea of indiscriminate amalgamation of the white… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Many of us draw lines which we intend never to cross. But life tests our resolve, mercilessly at times, and a foot… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Communities don't think, don't believe, don't want, don't have needs, don't have interests and don't make decisions. Only individuals have minds that… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
A man sees only what concerns him… How much more, then, it requires different intentions of the eye and of the mind… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I can't think of any mother who would think twice about discussing the changes that happen to their body during pregnancy. But… — Luciana Berger Copy Share Image
If you're fifty, exercise your mind and body regularly, eat well, and have a general zest for life, you're likely younger -… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
To succeed in any undertaking, any art or any trade or any profession, simply keep it ever persistently fixed in mind as… — Prentice Mulford Copy Share Image
“Was there ever a true great love? Anyone who became the object of my obsession and not simply my affections? I honestly… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“Another aspect of the emotional pain that is an intrinsic part of the egoic mind is a deep-seated sense of lack or… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Nagarjuna's Rebuttal ofObjec- tions says: If there were anything to be observed Through direct perception and the other instances [of valid cognition],… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
My view of university training is to unsettle the minds of young men, to widen their horizons, to inflame their intellects. It… — Robert M Copy Share Image
The dog’s agenda is simple, fathomable, overt: I want. “I want to go out, come in, eat something, lie here, play with… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
We must be trained to clarify minds, heal broken hearts, and create homes where sunshine will make an environment in which mental… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
“As the philosopher John Stuart Mill wrote, "It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
I'm one of those guys who will drink to, uh, kind of celebrate. I don't drink too much when I'm down or… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
“I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew… — Jack White Copy Share Image
“I don’t really know if I’m demi or ace or some other kind of gray or what, though. Thinking about labels makes… — Heidi Cullinan Copy Share Image
Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make… — Pericles Copy Share Image
“We ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the universe. The diversity of the phenomena… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Peace is something tangible. It silences the outgoing energy of the mind and feeds the aspiring heart. Peace is not merely the… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
In college, I was dead set on being a philosophy major, because I wanted to figure out the meaning of life. Four… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“If for instance the sentiment possessing for the moment the empire of our mind is sorrow, will not the genius sharpen the… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“an essential distinction must be drawn between intellect and what I’ll call “intellectualism.” For my purposes throughout the book, the former is… — Evan Sayet Copy Share Image
“(about sailors) Their minds are of the stay-at-home order, and their home is always with them - the ship; and so is… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“judgment is the most important faculty we have. An animal, or a man, may get on very well without ‘abstract attitude’ but… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“…if you have someone who wants to heal, sometime they will respond to the unconventional. Their minds are more open to healing,… — Daisy Whitney 'When You Were Here 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
That's what I love, getting the tube, not getting any recognition, trying to be as normal as possible. Sometimes you get a… — Per Mertesacker Copy Share Image
“The human psyche evolved in order to defend itself against seeing the truth. To prevent us from catching sight of the mechanism.… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
“Determined independence of spirit walks at freedom in a tyrant's Bastille, and defies a despot's hosts; but a mind enslaved by sin… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
On the theory of the soul's mortality, the inferiority of women's capacity is easily accounted for: Their domestic life requires no higher… — David Hume Copy Share Image