After I went to bed I had a curious fancy as to dreams. In sleep the doors of the mind are shut,… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Power always acts destructively, for its possessors are ever striving to lace all phenomena of social life into a corset of their… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“between ‘reality’ on the one hand, and the point where the mind strikes reality, there’s a middle zone, a rainbow edge where… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
It is an old, old adage that if you want someone to do something, get them to believe it is their idea.… — David Icke Copy Share Image
.. we shall not be properly educated ourselves, nor will the guardians whom we are training, until we can recognise the qualities… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Jerry looked at me and then laughed. Jerry was no dunce. He knew what was on my mind. Jerry was a strange… — Harold Robbins Copy Share Image
“I am tempted to find reason and justice in the fact that he died as violently and indecently as he lived. But… — Eric Ambler Copy Share Image
Why should I seek for love or study it? It is of God and passes human wit; I study hatred with great… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
television. It has changed the way that we perceive the world out there, and though we know that - have indeed been… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
Meditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“We pay a high price for this ingenious neural machinery, though, because the default mode network is responsible for mind-wandering. “Experience sampling”—which… — James Kingsland Copy Share Image
“She snorted. "Are you seriously asking me to have a fling with you?" "Absolutely not," he said, feigning shock. "I said dinner.… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“My greatest strength is an unfocused mind. This is because while you are all thinking of one idea, I’m thinking of five… — Ben Mitchell Copy Share Image
I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“The first thing that came into my mind when I saw her lounging at the front of the class was the look… — Serra Elinsen Copy Share Image
“Professor A. H. Maslow , for example, has conducted a series of researches into extremely healthy people that have led him to… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
“Cultural ideas live inside the minds of humans. They multiply and spread from one host to another, occasionally weakening the hosts and… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This… — Thomas R. Steagald Copy Share Image
The use of neuroscientific data to help resolve phenomenological questions is proving a common theme in much contemporary thinking about the mind.… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
If you have someone that you think is The One, don't just sort of think in your ordinary mind, 'Okay, let's pick… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
We never see a tree except through the image that we have of it, the concept of that tree; but the concept,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
A priori one should expect a chaotic world which cannot be grasped by the mind in any way... The kind of order… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“A life without an objective is much like a ship at sea with no port in mind. It drifts with the waves… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think maybe writers come from different planets. I mean, not in any sense as extravagant as Baryshnikov. But there are some… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
“We have only minimal control over the rewards for our work and effort—other people’s validation, recognition, rewards. So what are we going… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
'The Chill,' by Jason Starr and Mick Bertilorenzi, was both a wise and nervy choice to start the year: Starr's standalone novels,… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
I've always known that the quality of love was the mind, even though the body sometimes refuses this knowledge. The body lives… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Dance is active meditation. When we dance, we go beyond thought, beyond mind and beyond our individuality to become one in the… — Goa Gil Copy Share Image
“Keep in mind that it is not the responsibility of a church leader to make all the people happy all the time.… — Amy Fenton Lee Copy Share Image
“A guilty conscience pushed me to try harder—which I did for what seemed like a tremendous amount of wasted time, staring bug-eyed… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“In the strategy of my school, keep your body and mind straight and make your opponent go through contortions and twist about.… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
“If you are not man enough to hold my attention, keep my pockets filled with cash, buy me jewelry, sex me fiercely,… — George Sherman Hudson Copy Share Image
“The pain of the narcissist is that, to him, everything is really a threat. What doesn't surrender in reverence is blasphemous to… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“I was missing you, but not for the person you were. I was missing you for the version of you I made… — Liz Newman Copy Share Image
I think the dyed-in-the-wool, hard-core liberal - and remember, the more dyed-in-the-wool, the more hard-core, the more ignorant they are, and yet… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“You going back?' he asks. 'Where?' 'College,' he says. 'You plan on going back?' And before she can think of a proper… — Patrick Anderson Jr Copy Share Image
How can the mind take hold of such a country? Generations of invaders have tried, but they remain in exile. The important… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Leave if you wish but never forget I will remain in your conscious mind through wild things and whiskey. You'll try to… — Nikki Rowe Copy Share Image
