Human Mind Quotes
519 quotes by 381 authors
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This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The Gothic idea that we were to look backwards instead of forwards for the improvement of the human mind, and to recur to the annals…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Though the structures and patterns of mathematics reflect the structure of, and resonate in, the human mind every bit as much as do the structures…
— Keith Devlin
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Besides language and music, it [mathematics] is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind, and it is the…
— Hermann Weyl
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We do not assert that the capitalist mode of economic calculation guarantees the absolutely best solution of the allocation of factors of production. Such absolutely…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Thus commerce, though in itself a moral nullity, has had a considerable influence in tempering the human mind....he trades with the same countries ...(that he)…
— Thomas Paine
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If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the…
— Max Muller
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And the greatest calamity that has happened to the human mind is that he is against death. Being against death means you will miss the…
— Rajneesh
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To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients,…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The human mind is kind of like a piñata. When it breaks open, there's a lot of surprises inside. Once you get the piñata perspective,…
— Jane Wagner
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There are very deep and restrictive principles that determine the nature of human language and are rooted in the specific character of the human mind
— Noam Chomsky
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All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of…
— Charles Baudelaire
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I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the…
— Wallace Stevens
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Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in…
— William Hazlitt
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I may be a lunatic, but then, wasn't my lunacy caused by a monster that lurks at the bottom of every human mind? Those who…
— RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa
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Macaulay somewhere says, that it is extraordinary that, whereas the laws of the motions of the heavenly bodies, far removed as they are from us,…
— Florence Nightingale
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It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come…
— C.S. Lewis
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If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions…
— Wilhelm von Humboldt
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Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.
— Albert Einstein
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