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Mind Quotes by Edward Abbey
- My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind…
- This is the most beautiful place on Earth. There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of…
- Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.
- Metaphysics is a cobweb that the mind weaves around things.
- Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.
- Is the Archbishop's blessing any more meaningful than the Politician's handshake? The come, they go, with bigger things than us on their minds.
- Whenever I read _Time_ or _Newsweek_ or such magazines, I wash my hands afterward. But how to wash off the small but odious stain such…
- Edmund Wilson was our greatest American literary critic because he was more than a literary critic: He was a fearless, even radical judge of the…
- When riding my old Harley a ninety per at midnight down the Via Roma in Naples, I kept one consolation firmly in mind: If anything…
- Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy.
- Wilderness begins in the human mind.
- Night and day the river flows. If time is the mind of space, the River is the soul of the desert. Brave boatmen come, they…
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- 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