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Mind Quotes by Marcel Proust
- Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little,…
- There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.
- There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for future desires.
- The sight of the little madeleine had recalled nothing to my mind before I tasted it....
- The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection.
- All the mind's activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality.
- I believe that all true art is classic, but the dictates of the mind rarely permit of its being recognized as such when it first…
- We are less justified in saying that the thinking life of humanity is a miraculous perfectioning of animal and physical life than that it is…
- It is the tragedy of other people that they are to us merely showcases for the very perishable collections of our own mind.
- When the mind has a tendency to dream, it is a mistake to keep dreams away from it, to ration its dreams. So long as…
- We see things but we don't see them, like things that slid through the mind, one flowing into another.
- Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
- It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.
- All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
- Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year…
- The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
- Reading is at the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it. It does not constitute it ... There are certain cases…
- And wasn't my mind also like another crib in the depths of which I felt I remained ensconced, even in order to watch what was…
- In the sort of screen dappled with different states of mind which my consciousness would simultaneously unfold while I read, and which ranged from the…
- It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions
- None of us constitutes a material whole, identical for everyone, which a person has only to go look up as though we were a book…
- Having a body is in itself the greatest threat to the mind... The body encloses the mind in a fortress; before long the mind is…
- These dreams reminded me that, since I wished some day to become a writer, it was high time to decide what sort of books I…
- What an abyss of uncertainty, whenever the mind feels overtaken by itself; when it, the seeker, is at the same time the dark region through…
- The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which…
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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