Mind - Quotes
When someone is searching, [...] then it might easily happen that the only thing his eyes still see is that what he searches for, that he is unable to find anything, to let anything enter his mind, because he always thinks of nothing but the object of his search, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed by the goal.
How I wish I could walk through the doors of my mind;
Hold memory close at hand,
Help me understand the years.
How I wish I could choose between Heaven and Hell.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires.
The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
A desire of knowledge is the natural feeling of mankind; and every human being, whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
When I stared up at the jeweled sky, it was as if there were an obstruction between my eyes and their beauty. The obstruction was a face, just an unremarkable human face, but I couldn`t quite seem to banish it from my mind.
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology. Acceptance of the supernatural conveyed a great advantage throughout prehistory, when the brain was evolving. Thus it is in sharp contrast to biology, which was developed as a product of the modern age and is not underwritten by genetic algorithms. The uncomfortable truth is that the two beliefs are not factually compatible. As a result those who hunger for both intellectual and religious truth will never acquire both in full measure.
No human mind can comprehend all the knowledge which guides the actions of society.
Mathematical analysis [...] seems to be a faculty of the human mind destined to supplement the shortness of life and the imperfection of the senses.
The fact is, the heart and mind aren`t always friendly. And in my case, they`re barely speaking.
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
Man`s mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimension.