“Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The human mind prefers something which it can recognize to something for which it has no name, and, whereas thousands of persons… — David Fairchild Copy Share Image
“Being nearly four years old, she was certainly a child: and children are human (if one allows the term "human" a wide… — Richard Hughes Copy Share Image
The human mind appears suddenly and inexplicably out of some unknown and unimaginable void. It passes half its known life in the… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
The power of understanding symbols, i.e. of regarding everything about a sense-datum as irrelevant except a certain form that it embodies, is… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. You also believe that the nature of reality is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The human mind shows an urge to capture into fixed forms through unreal assumptions, that is, fictions, that which is chaotic, always… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
“There is a sweet little horror story that is only two sentences long: 'The last man on Earth sat along in a… — Fredric Brown Copy Share Image
Ayurveda is the science of life and it has a very basic, simple kind of approach, which is that we are part… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“Here are some practical Dataist guidelines for you: ‘You want to know who you really are?’ asks Dataism. ‘Then forget about mountains… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
There’s light at the end of the tunnel. The problem is that tunnel is in the back of your mind. And if… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. On all… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“A beggar came to an emperor’s palace. The emperor was just in the garden so he heard the beggar. The man on… — Osho Copy Share Image
I enter into discussion and argument with great freedom and ease, inasmuch as opinion finds me in a bad soil to penetrate… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Habit hath so vast a prevalence over the human mind that there is scarce anything too strange or too strong to be… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“Every single human being is neurologically predisposed to be biased in various walks of life. It is biologically impossible to be absolutely… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“So far as we know, the tiny fragments of the universe embodied in man are the only centers of thought and responsibility… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
“Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Every brilliant experiment, like every great work of art, starts with an act of imagination. Unfortunately, our current culture subscribes to a… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“the problem of life was as simple as it was classic. Politics offered no difficulties, for there the moral law was a… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“Conceive the condition of the human mind if all propositions whatsoever were self-evident except one, which was to become self-evident at the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Though the structures and patterns of mathematics reflect the structure of, and resonate in, the human mind every bit as much as… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
Steve Jobs did not start started Apple as a scam. But he understood early on the power of marketing. The idea of… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
“He found it impossible to believe that a world so full of evil was the work of an Author combining infinite power… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If to be venerated for benevolence, if to be admired for talents, if to be esteemed for patriotism, if to be beloved… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“The human mind is an amazing thing. It protects us when we can't protect ourselves. Sometimes when we're holding pain and it… — Beth Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Most Romans believed that their system of government was the finest political invention of the human mind. Change was inconceivable. Indeed, the… — Anthony Everitt Copy Share Image
“Sure one could argue the naturalist's case that the mind experiences an external reality in which it participates. But how can this… — Janna Levin Copy Share Image
“though books, as Milton says, may be the embalming of mighty spirits, they are also the resurrection of rebellious, reactionary, fantastical, and… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
I suppose I can live with missing decimals, missing floors to tall buildings, and floors that are named instead of numbered. A… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“In January 1821, Thomas Jefferson wrote John Adams to “encourage a hope that the human mind will some day get back to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
To most humans, a universe consisting of particles banging about and doing what they have to do seems cold, barren, and without… — Milton A. Rothman Copy Share Image
Scientists may study mainly matter but they cannot ignore the human mind, or consciousness: spiritual practitioners may be engaging mainly in developing… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I know, that since life is our most precious gift, and as far as we can be absolutely certain, it's given to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“It's strange how the human mind swings back and forth, from one extreme to another. Does truth lie at some point of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We humans have existed in our present form for about a hundred thousand years. I believe that if during this time the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“The distinction between “real in nature” versus “illusory” is a false dichotomy. Fear and anger are real to a group of people… — Lisa Feldman Barrett Copy Share Image
For you must know, gentlemen, that when the mariner is dosed, he likes to know that he has been dosed: with fifteen… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
“We are in the position of a little child, entering a huge library whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
