“Goldfish in a glass bowl are harmless to the human mind, maybe even helpful to minds casting about for something, anything, to… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Of all the unexpected qualities of an unexpected universe, the sheer organizing power of animal and plant metabolism is one of the… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
“But evolution has provided the human mind with the ability to create another kind of real, one that is completely dependent on… — Lisa Feldman Barrett Copy Share Image
“But ever since, more than a year before, discovering to him many of the riches of his own soul, the love of… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Besides language and music, it [mathematics] is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind, and… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
Myth was regarded as primary; it was concerned with what was thought to be timeless and constant in our existence. Myth looked… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“I can easily believe that there are more invisible creatures in the universe than visible ones. But who will tell us to… — Thomas Burnet Copy Share Image
We have two main instruments: the mind and the heart. The mind finds it difficult to be happy, precisely because the mind… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
There is a strange fact about the human mind, a fact that differentiates the mind sharply from the body. The body is… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
“How often one goes to sleep troubled and full of pain, not knowing what causes the travail, and in the morning a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“If an idea is true it belongs equally to all those capable of understanding it; if it is false there is no… — Thomas Garrett Isham Copy Share Image
“The old adage that people only want what they can’t have or what they can’t tame— is totally primitive. A being of… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“When we look at the frailties of the human mind and the apparent disinterest by the multitude to do the very hard… — Brian Goedken Copy Share Image
And the greatest calamity that has happened to the human mind is that he is against death. Being against death means you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“The human mind is the very idea or knowledge of the human body (II. xiii.), which (II. ix.) is in God, in… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“Political realism refuses to identify the moral aspirations of a particular nation with the moral laws that govern the universe. As it… — Hans J. Morgenthau Copy Share Image
“In all of knowable reality, God is unique. He is knowable not like the multiplication table or the table of elements; he… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Chess is a unique battlefield for human minds and computers - human intuition, our creativity, fantasy, our logic, versus the brute force… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“How often things must have been seen and dismissed as unimportant, before the speculative eye and the moment of vision came! It… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“The Golden Bough captured the imagination of many artists in the early twentieth century. Eliot, certainly, was immersed in it, discussing it… — Jewel Spears Brooker Copy Share Image
I have shown that those who deplore Artificial Intelligence are also those who deplore the evolutionary accounts of human mentality: if human… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“Yet each disappointment Ted felt in his wife, each incremental deflation, was accompanied by a seizure of guilt; many years ago, he… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“You turned into a cat! A SMALL cat! You violated Conservation of Energy! That's not just an arbitrary rule, it's implied by… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“In my mind's eye I can still see the first night flight I made in Argentina. It was pitch-dark. Yet in the… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
“Males do not represent two discrete populations; heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheep and goats, and… — Alfred Kinsey Copy Share Image
“Your question is the most difficult in the world. It is not a question I can answer simply with yes or no.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We need a sense of the oneness of the 7 billion human beings alive today. When I meet people, I don't think… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“The human mind is a product of the Pleistocene age, shaped by wildness that has all but disappeared. If we complete the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Human artifacts not only include material structures and objects, such as buildings, machines, and automobiles, but they also include organizations, organizational structures… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
My best wishes, in the joys, and festivities, and the solemn services of that day on which will be completed the fiftieth… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“The most common reaction of the human mind to achievement is not satisfaction, but craving for more. Humans are always on the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Yet, isn't it strange, isn't it weird, how we can KNOW that someone is not behaving in the way we imagine, and… — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
The so-called Philosophy of India is even more blowsy and senseless than the metaphysics of the West. It is at war with… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Have you ever looked at a map of our country, Necdet?’ Green Headscarf says. ‘It’s a map of the human mind. We’re… — Ian McDonald Copy Share Image
For chemistry is no science form'd à priori; 'tis no production of the human mind, framed by reasoning and deduction: it took… — Herman Boerhaave Copy Share Image
Whatever sphere of the human mind you may select for your special study, whether it be language, or religion, or mythology, or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It got to the point where he didn’t even look up at the sky any more as he blundered back and forth.… — Stephen Baxter Copy Share Image
“The charge that Anarchism is destructive, rather than constructive, and that, therefore, Anarchism is opposed to organization, is one of the many… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it is in this respect that language differs most sharply from other biologic systems for communication. Ambiguity seems to be an… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“The most difficult task in the world is to read a human mind.” — Ataur Rahman Tareq ART Copy Share Image