Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its… — Richard Courant Copy Share Image
... he preferred his own madness, to the regular sanity. He rejoiced in his own madness, he was free. He did not… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“No one else could share his quandary. His agonies were a mixture of shame, of loss fueled by profoundly rooted fury—solitary burdens… — Tom Baldwin Copy Share Image
I would like to stop worrying so much, because I worry all the time. And to learn how to be happier, just… — Britney Spears Copy Share Image
I don't believe in religion. I believe the example of Christ. I believe in the example of a perfect human being that… — Katharine Hepburn Copy Share Image
Worry is the most popular form of suicide. Worry impairs appetite, disturbs sleep, makes respiration irregular, spoils digestion, irritates disposition, warps character,… — William George Jordan Copy Share Image
Kind words cost no more than unkind ones . . . and we may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindliness around… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Over time, as the thinking mind begins to settle [through the practice of meditation], we’ll start to see our patterns and habits… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
When in our minds we pre-live our marriage, we help to determine the kind of person that we would like to be… — Sterling W Sill Copy Share Image
I guess you could say I've written a lot about one thing as a journalist. But I hardly ever saw it as… — Alex Tizon Copy Share Image
You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I find one vast garden spread out all over the universe. All plants, all human beings, all higher mind bodies are about… — Anandamayi Ma Copy Share Image
Before the scientific rationalism took hold of our minds and before we became succumbed to a materialistic worldview, the Western philosophy was… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
“...though leaving him always to remark, portentously, on his probably having formed a relation, his probably enjoying a consciousness, unique in the… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“He must have pressed the wrong button, or several of them, for when the door fretted open he found himself deep underground,… — Douglas Woolf Copy Share Image
Mental patterns do not originate out of inorganic nature. They originate out of society, which originates out of inorganic nature. And, as… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The actual organization of behavior goes on the level of the individual nerve cells and their connections, and we have a hundred… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I once saw professional soccer up there in Seattle, the Sounders. I went and saw that. I'm not a big soccer fan,… — Guy Fieri Copy Share Image
There is supercomputer somewhere in the Nevada desert whose sole function is to count the number of times that I have said… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
People can be in a prison of their own mind. [There are] people who don't have their hearts open to other people's… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
Godzilla also represents the fear of nuclear annihilation, which was something that was big in my mind at the time. It was… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Keep the remembrance of your real nature alive, even while working, and avoid haste which causes you to forget. Be deliberate. Practice… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
It is a great mistake to regard a certain object as pleasurable in itself and to store the idea of it in… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
You walk into a restaurant when chefs are not there and it's different. The magic isn't there. Why pay top pounds when… — Marco Pierre White Copy Share Image
The state-of-the-art techniques really allowed us to make maps of how Sting's brain organizes music. That's important because at the heart of… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Never mind that to me, the face of Afghanistan is that of a boy with a thin-boned frame, a shaved head, and… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Contradictions of perspective. Contrasts of light. Contrasts of form. Points of view impossible to achieve in drawing and painting. Foreshortenings with a… — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
“Once, on a sleepless night, I elaborated a whole theory of art predicated on simply reminding the ever-forgetful mind of the most… — David Gordon Copy Share Image
I believe in God as I believe in my friends, because I feel the breath of His affections, feel His invisible hand,… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
For many of us, we imagine that separation is crucial, the time for your mind to switch from one thing to another… — Miguel McKelvey Copy Share Image
The Bushes were certainly part of Texas in their mind, but they didn't have the kind of political flavor that you normally… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
I'm not a union guy in the sense that I know a lot about how they operate. But I know fighters. They… — Scott Coker Copy Share Image
God calls us to worship, but in many instances we are in entertainment, just running a poor second to the theaters. That… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Last week I was listening to a podcast on Hanselminutes, with Robert Martin talking about the SOLID principles … they all sounded… — Joel Spolsky Copy Share Image
Belief in Yahweh doesn't come with your mind. It comes with your heart. When you only believe in things you can see… — Lynn Austin Copy Share Image
…Even the idea of a city never entered his mind. It was as if he had walked under the millimeter of haze… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Their thought is India is a beehive (Madhumakhi Ka Chhata) but our thought is India is our Mother (Maata). Their thought is… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Sir, Your letter of the 15th is received, but Age has long since obliged me to withhold my mind from Speculations of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Look at the facts, look at the circumstances if you choose to have an open mind and understand and care deeply about… — Kimberly Guilfoyle Copy Share Image