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Mind Quotes by Marvin Minsky
- Minds are simply what brains do.
- In general, we’re least aware of what our minds do best.
- An ethicist is someone who sees something wrong with whatever you have in mind.
- If you understand something in only one way, then you don't really understand it at all. The secret of what anything means to us depends…
- Logic doesn't apply to the real world. D. R. Hofstadter and D. C. Dennett (eds.) The Mind's I, 1981.
- We'll show you that you can build a mind from many little parts, each mindless by itself.
- The nature of mind: much of its power seems to stem from just the messy ways its agents cross-connect. ...it's only what we must expect…
- Good theories of the mind must span at least three different scales of time: slow, for the billions of years in which our brains have…
- Each part of the mind sees only a little of what happens in some others, and that little is swiftly refined, reformulated and "represented." We…
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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