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A man who has once looked with the archaeological eye will never see quite normally. He will be wounded by what other…
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Some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man's creative powers. The artist and the scientist bring out of the dark void, like…
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[On common water.] Its substance reaches everywhere; it touches the past and prepares the future; it moves under the poles and wanders…
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After chiding the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the unenviable position of having to create…
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It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called successes.
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The freedom to create is somehow linked with facility of access to those obscure regions below the conscious mind.
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Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the present.
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The future is neither ahead nor behind, on one side or another. Nor is it dark or light. It is contained within…
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Mind is locked in matter like the spirit Ariel in a cloven pine. Like Ariel, men struggle to escape the drag of…
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You think that way as you begin to get grayer and you see pretty plainly that the game is not going to…
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Man is dragged hither and thither, at one moment by the blind instincts of the forest, at the next by the strange…
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Man inhabits a realm half in and half out of nature, his mind reaching forever beyond the tool, the uniformity, the law,…
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For, in truth, an image is only dead matter shaped by the craftsman's hand. But we have no sensible image of sensible…
— Clement of Alexandria
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Oh, wondrous power! how little understood, Entrusted to the mother's mind alone, To fashion genius, form the soul for good, Inspire a…
— Sarah Josepha Hale
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The happiness of life consists, like the day, not in single flashes (of light), but in one continuous mild serenity. The most…
— Jean Paul
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Man inhabits a realm half in and half out of nature, his mind reaching forever beyond the tool, the uniformity, the law,…
— Loren Eiseley
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It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.
— Roger L'Estrange
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Let your mind alone, and see what happens.
— Virgil Thomson
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It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone what it compares its situation to that can make anyone…
— Roger L'Estrange
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Art, if it can be ascribed value, is most valuable when its beauty (and the beauty of the truth it tells) bewilders,…
— Andrew Peterson
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You can’t change the mind with the mind alone, or we’d all be enlightened
— Wendy Palmer
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Whosoever assumes a religious garb pleases not God even a bit. O ye men, understand this clearly in your minds, that God…
— Guru Gobind Singh
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Leave your mind alone, that is all. Do not go along with it. After all, there is no such thing as mind…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Mind alone remains stable, and watches the chaos of phenomena, and knows that there is a plastic unity of existence - a…
— Lawren Harris
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