Philosophy of Mind Quote by Leon Trotsky

“Living in a world where constantly one turned and touched incomprehension—they did not comprehend, he did not comprehend—gave the air the lift of uncertainty…

— Elizabeth Strout

“There was no noise, no effort, no consciences in anything he did, but in everything an indescribable lightness, a seeming impossibility of doing nothing…

— Charles Dickens

“When he thought of all he’d seen, done and experienced in his life, all he’d gained, lost, desired and agonized over, he found it…

— D.E. Sievers

“Deeply he felt, more deeply than ever before, in this hour, the indestructibility of every life, the eternity of every moment.”

— Hermann Hesse

“Consciousness is man's greatest misfortune, still I know that man loves it and will not exchange it for any satisfactions.”

— Dostoyevsky

“He found something that he wanted, had always wanted and always would want -- not to be admired, as he had feared; not to…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“In spite of his mildness and timidity in reproving, every one about him knew that on the exceptional occasions when he chose, he was…

— George Eliot

“He completely lacked any ardent interest that might have occupied his mind. His interior life was impoverished, had undergone a deterioration so severe that…

— Thomas Mann

“He was burdened, poor Strether—it had better be confessed at the outset—with the oddity of a double consciousness. There was detachment in his zeal…

— Henry James

“They have neither thought nor being, and merely repeat indifferently and uncomprehendingly everything they hear, retaining within themselves an absolute void.”

— Anonymous

“Modern nonreligious man assumes a tragic existence and his existential choice is not without its greatness.”

— Anonymous

“He suffered incessantly from the fact that his critical faculties transcended his constructive capacities. In a manner of speaking, his critical sense robbed him…

— Albert Einstein