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Mind Quotes by Christopher Hitchens
- It’s considered perfectly normal in this society to approach dying people who you don’t know but who are unbelievers and say, ‘Now are you gonna…
- The quality you most admire in a woman? Courage moral and physical: "anima"-the ability to visualize the mind and need of a man. Also a…
- If you think all this is going on, all these gigantic fields of gravity and light with you in mind, then you really do have…
- Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul.
- I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this…
- The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind.
- I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you'…
- The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
- Our weapons are the ironic mind against the literal: the open mind against the credulous; the courageous pursuit of truth against the fearful and abject…
- There are days when I miss my old convictions as if they were an amputated limb. But in general I feel better, and no less…
- Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite…
- Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other…
- In order to be a part of the totalitarian mind-set, it is not necessary to wear a uniform or carry a club or a whip.…
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