Human Mind Quotes - Page 17

• The first serious consciousness of Nature's gesture - her attitude towards life-took form then as a phantasm, a nightmare, all insanity of force. For the first time, the stage-scenery of the senses collapsed; the human mind felt itself stripped naked, vibrating in a void of shapeless energies, with resistless mass, colliding, crushing, wasting, and destroying what these same energies had created and labored from eternity to perfect.

  Henry Adams

  Crush, Attitude, Perfect

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.283, Booklassic

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• Wilderness begins in the human mind.

  Edward Abbey

  Mind, Wilderness, Humans

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.46, RosettaBooks

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• I may be a lunatic, but then, wasn't my lunacy caused by a monster that lurks at the bottom of every human mind? Those who call me a madman and spurn me may become lunatics tomorrow. They harbor the same monster.

  Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

  Depression, Mind, Monsters

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• Macaulay somewhere says, that it is extraordinary that, whereas the laws of the motions of the heavenly bodies, far removed as they are from us, are perfectly well understood, the laws of the human mind, which are under our observation all day and every day, are no better understood than they were two thousand years ago.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Years, Law

  Florence Nightingale (1860). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not”, p.6

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• It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come from nowhere.

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Miracle, Mind

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• If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Numbers, History, Mind

  Wilhelm von Humboldt (2008). “The Limits of State Action”, p.195, Cambridge University Press

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• A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Cities, Ideas, Mind

  "Finding The Summer Movies That Are (Well) Off The Beaten Path". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. May 31, 2010.

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• I think the human mind is fascinating. I love figuring out why people are doing what they do.

  Danielle Fishel

  Thinking, People, Mind

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

  Man Ray

  Art, Mind, Doe

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• The human mind is like Van Halen. If you just pull out one piece and keep replacing it, it just degenerates.

  Fran Kranz

  Mind, Pieces, Degenerates

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• I can fool you because you're a human. You have a wonderful human mind that works no different from my human mind. Usually when we're fooled, the mind hasn't made a mistake. It's come to the wrong conclusion for the right reason.

  Jerry Andrus

  Mistake, Mind, Different

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• Recreational development is a job not of building roads into lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.

  Aldo Leopold

  Country, Jobs, Lovely

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.26, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Memory runs along deep, fixed channels in the brain, like electricity along its conduits; only a cataclysm can make the electrons rear up in shock and slide over into another channel. The human mind seems doomed to believe, as simply as a rooster believes, that where we are now is the only possibility

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Running, Memories, Believe

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• Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.

  Edward Abbey

  Believe, Mind, Ghost

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.10, RosettaBooks

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• The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Thinking, Mind, May

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• Just take one thing out and the whole palace, the whole edifice of the human mind collapses. Take effort out of it and desiring disappears, imagination disappears, past and future disappear, or take desire out and effort disappears and time disappears and ego disappears. Just take one thing out of the gestalt and the whole gestalt simply disappears; it cannot exist without certain things. Those are the very essentials of it - effort is one of the essentials. Hence all the great Masters of the world have taught about grace.

  Rajneesh

  Past, Imagination, Effort

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• The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

  Eliza Farnham

  Truth, Effort, Mind

  Eliza Wood Farnham (1864). “Woman and Her Era”, p.9

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• Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality. Though different traditions may emphasize different aspects, it is only the interplay of these antithetic forces and the struggle for their synthesis that constitute the life, usefulness, and supreme value of mathematical science.

  Richard Courant

  Struggle, Expression, Perfection

  Richard Courant, Herbert Robbins, Ian Stewart (1996). “What is Mathematics?: An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods”, p.23, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Of all the achievements of the human mind, the birth of the alphabet is the most momentous.

  Frederic Goudy

  Achievement, Design, Mind

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• I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Educational, Ideas, Mind

  Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.194, Hackett Publishing

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• Comrades ! You have voluntarily accepted a mission that is the noblest that the human mind can conceive of. For the fulfillment of such a mission no sacrifice is too great, not even the sacrifice of one's life. You are today the custodians of India's national honour and the embodiment of India's hopes and aspirations. So conduct yourself that your countrymen may bless you and posterity may be proud of you.

  Subhas Chandra Bose

  Army, Sacrifice, Mind

  Subhas Chandra Bose, Netaji Subhas Ashram (Suisa, India), Indian National Army (2004*). “Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and 21st century India: a special number on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose”

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• He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Mind, Weakness, Ethics

  "Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrat" by Baruch Spinoza, part III: "On the Origin and Nature of the Emotions", 1677.

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• Morality, for all the conditioning to which the human mind has been and is subjected, is always a personal choice in the last analysis.

  John Christopher

  Choices, Mind, Analysis

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• The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his job is not to describe nature, but to show you a world completely absorbed and possessed by the human mind.

  Northrop Frye

  Jobs, Two, Mind

  Northrop Frye (1996). “Collected Works of Northrop Frye: The educated imagination and other writings on critical theory 1933-1963”

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• Yet, isn't it strange, isn't it weird, how we can KNOW that someone is not behaving in the way we imagine, and at the same time we can be totally convinced that he is! How clever the human mind is, that it can accept two contradictory things as 'facts.' Yes, I know that in this case one 'fact' was untrue. But the human mind can KNOW something is untrue and still accept it as a 'fact,' and act on it as if it were true.

  Aidan Chambers

  Clever, Two, Mind

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