Creatures Quote by Marcel Proust

“Even the simple act which we describe as 'seeing someone we know' is, to some extent, an intellectual process. We pack the physical outline…

— Marcel Proust

Our ideas are the offspring of our senses; we are not more able to create the form of a being we have not seen,…

— Henry Fuseli

My starting point is the fundamental initial fact that each one of us is perforce linked by all the material organic and psychic strands…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

As we tell stories about the lives of others, we learn how to imagine what another creature might feel in response to various events.…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

God made us thinking beings, and he guides our minds as we think things out in his presence.

— J. I. Packer

Our minds are shaped by the books we read. Our characters, by the people we meet. Our spirits by the love we give.

— Anonymous

In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts.

— Albert Einstein

As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism,…

— Jacques Lacan

We miraculously become what we read. The mind is the sculptor of ones-self, amazingly creating the essence of who we are.

— Johnny Luckett

We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind has put into…

— Arthur Eddington

That which dominates our imagination and our thoughts will determine our life and character.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The brain writes the autobiography of our species at the conscious level.

— David Brooks