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Mind Quotes by Matthew Arnold
- Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the…
- Consider these people, then, their way of life, their habits, their manners, the very tones of their voice; look at them attentively; observe the literature…
- Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the…
- Time may restore us in his course Goethe's sage mind and Byron's force: But where will Europe's latter hour Again find Wordsworth's healing power?
- Nature's great law, and the law of all men's minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live…
- Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
- Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left…
- Mind is a light which the Gods mock us with, To lead those false who trust it.
- It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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- To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 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
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- I've known you long enough to know you try not to let your feelings show. Lately when I hold you near, I… — Superman
- 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
- The energy of the mind is the essence of life. — Aristotle