So great are the psychological restistances to war in modern nations, that every war must appear to be a war of defence… — Harold Lasswell Copy Share Image
Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A very elementary exercise in psychology, not to be dignified by the name of psycho-analysis, showed me, on looking at my notebook,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Was there ever a great true love? Anyone who became the object of my obsession and not simply my affections?...I could not… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Through some strange and powerful principle of mental chemistry which she has never divulged, nature wraps up in the impulse of strong… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that they lived pretty much the same sort of life in the Homeric age, for men have always… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“And that is why people think that computers don’t have minds, and why people think that their brains are special, and different… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“In reading The History of Nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities, their seasons of excitement… — Charles MacKay Copy Share Image
The minority has discovered a powerful help in influencing majorities. It has been found possible so to mold the mind of the… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
“The path of the heart is not about controlling or changing your mind. It is about cultivating a willingness to let go… — Christine Samuel Copy Share Image
“What they used to call soul. What they used to call spirit. Indivisible, complete, that thing made of mind, distinct from body.… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
“Thinking more deeply into things usually left alone helps us to find bubbles of truth and clarity. When we realize we have… — Kayla Severson Copy Share Image
“I found that we must build our consciousness or faith step by step. When we make certain impressions on our subconscious mind… — Venice J. Bloodworth Copy Share Image
The mind is the seat of perception of the things we see, hear, and feel. It is through the mind that we… — Charles Fillmore Copy Share Image
“It was not without a certain wild pleasure I ran before the wind, delivering my trouble of mind to the measureless air-torrent… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I have thought from the time of the cessation of the hostilities, that silence and patience on the part of the South… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
He who has annexed them [some principalities], if he wishes to hold them, has only to bear in mind two considerations: the… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Journalism only tells us what men are doing; it is fiction that tells us what they are thinking, and still more what… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if we´re honest, that it will become a dark master of… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Most chase you for your unequaled beauty and gorgeous form, wants to grab you for them to stand out in the crowd...but… — Rizzi Vicci Copy Share Image
“And here lies the essential between Stoicism and the modern-day 'cult of optimism.' For the Stoics, the ideal state of mind was… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
The conventional mind is passive - it consumes information and regurgitates it in familiar forms. The dimensional mind is active, transforming everything… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
If the minds of women were enlightened and improved, the domestic work would be more frequently refreshed by intelligent conversation, a means… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
“All I know is I'm losing my mind," Franny said. "I'm just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else's.… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
The only thing he could do to stay alive was not to allow himself the anguish of that memory. He erased it… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Life had taught her that we all require big and small lies in order to survive, just as much as we need… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I say this ironically, not because I favor the State, but because people are not in the state of mind right now… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
This great question of predestination and free will, of free moral agency and accountability, and being saved by the grace of God,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“After several years of channeling, [my spirit guide,] Orin told me that he wanted to teach me about the future and probably… — Sanaya Roman Copy Share Image
It takes a certain kind of mind to narrate, to work through character motivation, to be unforgiving to one's writer-self when it… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds.… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“The human mind is only capable of absorbing a few things at a time. We see what is taking place in front… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Any circumstance you find yourself in is only temporary and can change in an instant. Your attitude and state of mind is… — Kemmy Nola Http://wwwamoreloveforlifecom Copy Share Image
There's physical adversity, that if you are someone that likes exercise like I do, I exercise everyday. When you exercise, there's pain… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Among the arts of conversation no one pleases more than mutual deference or civility, which leads us to resign our own inclinations… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Cognitive states of mind are seldom addictive, since they depend upon exploration of the world, and the individual encounter with the individual… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
During a game, it comes down to your mind - the pressure. There are loads of other aspects, too. Many people say… — Francesco Totti Copy Share Image