Human Mind Quotes
519 quotes by 381 authors
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The human mind has first to construct forms, independently, before we can find them in things.
— Albert Einstein
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There is a principle which is pure, placed in the human mind, which in different places and ages hath had different names. It is, however,…
— John Woolman
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The one place gods inarguably exist is in the human mind
— Alan Moore
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In Tetrad form, the artifact is seen to be not neutral or passive, bur an active logos or utterance of the human mind or body…
— Marshall McLuhan
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It is necessary to guard ourselves from thinking that the practice of the scientific method enlarges the powers of the human mind. Nothing is more…
— Wilfred Trotter
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Either mathematics is too big for the human mind or the human mind is more than a machine.
— Kurt Gödel
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It was only since the turn of the century that one returned to the immense role that abstraction plays in the human mind by its…
— Sigfried Giedion
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As sounds in a musical composition can be used not to express physical objects but ideas, emotions, harmonies, rhythmic orders and most any expression of…
— Wynn Bullock
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My thesis is that morality exists outside the human mind in the sense of being not just a trait of individual humans, but a human…
— Michael Shermer
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There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds…
— Alfred Russel Wallace
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Chaos is but unperceived order; it is a word indicating the limitations of the human mind and the paucity of observational facts. The words ‘chaos,’…
— Harlow Shapley
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Psychotherapy may begin with the primitive, but it must end with the divine, for both are integral factors in the human mind.
— Dion Fortune
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Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human…
— Roy Blount, Jr.
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The churning of a human mind is unpredictable, as is the anatomy of the human heart.
— Rudy Rucker
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Blindness to the aesthetic element in mathematics is widespread and can account for a feeling that mathematics is dry as dust, as exciting as a…
— Philip J. Davis
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For the most part, it is true, ordinary men and women regard mathematics with energetic distaste, counting its concepts as rhapsodic as cauliflower. This is…
— David Berlinski
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Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama
— Edward Bond
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The two great movers of the human mind are the desire of good and the fear of evil.
— Amit Abraham
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We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremendous difficulty, provided that we…
— Edsger Dijkstra
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