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Mind Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for…
- It needs a good deal of philosophy not to be mortified by the thought of persons who have voluntarily abandoned everything that for the most…
- Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse…
- Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their collective belly.
- I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
- Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
- It must be that there is something naturally absurd in a sincere emotion, though why there should be I cannot imagine, unless it is that…
- Everyone had some defect, or body or of mind: he thought of all the people he had known (the whole world was like a sick…
- The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide…
- Vaguely, as when you are studying a foreign language and read a page which at first you can make nothing of, till a word or…
- But Philip was impatient with himself; he called to mind his idea of the pattern of life: the unhappiness he had suffered was no more…
- The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased…
- The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement…
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