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Mind Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
- Still, instead of trusting what their own minds tell them, men have as a rule a weakness for trusting others who pretend to supernatural sources…
- The ordinary method of education is to imprint ideas and opinions, in the strict sense of the word, prejudices, on the mind of the child,…
- The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first.
- The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.
- The highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind.
- A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of…
- Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes; this is partly because it…
- Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
- The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
- Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they…
- NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be…
- Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said…
- We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire a knowledge of the superficial nature of…
- Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it…
- One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. In order…
- What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this…
- To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.
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- 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
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- 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