Mind Quotes by Herman Melville

Is he mad? Anyway there's something on his mind, as sure as there must be something on a deck when it cracks.

— Herman Melville

The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love.

— Herman Melville

Thus it often is, that the constant friction of illiberal minds wears out at last the best resolves of the more generous.

— Herman Melville

Any appellative at all savouring of arbitrary rank is unsuitable to a man of liberal and catholic mind.

— Herman Melville

O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies; not the smallest atom stirs or…

— Herman Melville

It is not for man to follow the trail of truth too far, since by so doing he entirely loses the directing…

— Herman Melville

Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to…

— Herman Melville

So, when on one side you hoist in Locke's head, you go over that way; but now, on the other side, hoist…

— Herman Melville

“Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through…

— Herman Melville

Say what some poets will, Nature is not so much her own ever-sweet interpreter, as the mere supplier of that cunning alphabet,…

— Herman Melville

It is-or seems to be-a wise sort of thing, to realise that all that happens to a man in this life is…

— Herman Melville

The grand principles of virtue and honor, however they may be distorted by arbitrary codes, are the same the world over: and…

— Herman Melville

“But the third Emir, now seeing himself all alone on the quarter-deck, seems to feel relieved from some curious restraint; for, tipping…

— Herman Melville

And so, through all the thick mists of the dim doubts in my mind, divine intuitions now and then shoot, enkindling my…

— Herman Melville

“Is it not curious, that so vast a being as the whale should see the world through so small an eye, and…

— Herman Melville

The stillness of the calm is awful. His voice begins to grow strange and portentous. He feels it in him like something…

— Herman Melville

“Often, when forced from his hammock by exhausting and intolerably vivid dreams of the night, which, resuming his own intense thoughts through…

— Herman Melville