Human mind Quote by Joanna Baillie

“It is indeed strange that we find it so difficult to welcome...the blissful nature of the loss of the power of selfhood—a power it…

— Leo Bersani

“And the self concern which is our torment, whether we know it or not, must find an antidote when we let our imagination stray…

— Julie Summers

“It is time, therefore, that you should apply for aid to such helpful Spirits. But will you have the strength of mind, the courage…

— William Beckford

“The truly self-possessed, however, are free from the whims of fate and chance. Calmly, they affect their will, and with strength of character and…

— James Allen

“How often is it the case that, when impossibilities have come to pass and dreams have condensed their misty substance into tangible realities, we…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The wretchedness of ordinary life, endured so gaily when it is part of our normal existence, is made far worse when it comes as…

— Marcel Proust

“When the mind rises punned in the flames of self-realization, distance between human and human disappears as if it never existed in the first…

— Abhijit Naskar

Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to…

— Albert Einstein

“To conceive the horror of my sensations is, I presume, utterly impossible; yet a curiosity to penetrate the mysteries of these awful regions predominates…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“And so the mind or spirit is the great opportunist, itself impossible to pin down, take hold of, anywhere; one is tempted to believe…

— Robert Musil

“As long as you allow your intellectual force to pour out into the absolute, it moves in eddies, its power is dissipated, it is…

— Jacques Rivière

“For all that exists in man, whether good or evil, is rendered conspicuous by the presence of great danger. His inmost feelings are roused…

— Justus Friedrich Karl Hecker