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Mind Quotes by Annie Dillard
- Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatize our days, will illuminate and inspire us with wisdom, courage,…
- The mind itself is an art object ... The mind is a blue guitar on which we improvise the song of the world.
- The mind wants the world to return its love, or its awareness; the mind wants to know all the world, and all eternity, and God.
- Hasidism has a tradition that one of man's purposes is to assist God in the work of redemption by "hallowing" the things of creation. By…
- I like to be aware of a book as a piece of writing, and aware of its structure as a product of mind, and yet…
- I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce…
- The mind of the writer does indeed do something before it dies, and so does its owner, but I would be hard put to call…
- The mind wants to live forever, or to learn a very good reason why not. The mind wants the world to return its love, or…
- So the Midwest nourishes us [...] and presents us with the spectacle of a land and a people completed and certain. And so we run…
- You can, in short, lead the life of the mind, which is, despite some appalling frustrations, the happiest life on earth. And one day, in…
- The world did not have me in mind; it had no mind. It was a coincidental collection of things and people, of items, an I…
- Could two live that way? Could two live under the wild rose, and explore by the pond, so that the smooth mind of each is…
- It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave. It is hard to…
- We are here to witness. There is nothing else to do with those mute materials we do not need. Until Larry teaches his stone to…
- Much has been written about the life of the mind.
More Mind Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- The energy of the mind is the essence of life. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle