Mind - Quotes
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please - you can never have both.
It has been said, "time heals all wounds." I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue, and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.
How happy is the blameless Vestal`s lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray`r accepted, and each wish resign`d.
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
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.
The universe is merely a fleeting idea in God`s mind - a pretty uncomfortable thought, particularly if you`ve just made a down payment on a house.