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Mind Quotes by W G Sebald
- The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have…
- I felt that the decrepit state of these once magnificent buildings, with their broken gutters, walls blackened by rainwater, crumbling plaster revealing the coarse masonry…
- I have always kept ducks, even as a child, and the colours of their plumage, in particular the dark green and snow white, seemed to…
- The Noonday Demon explores the subterranean realms of an illness which is on the point of becoming endemic, and which more than anything else mirrors…
- ...the darkness does not lift but becomes yet heavier as I think how little we can hold in mind, how everything is constantly lapsing into…
- How happily, said Austerlitz, have I sat over a book in the deepening twilight until I could no longer make out the words and my…
- To my mind, it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives. But it is something…
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
- 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