Human Mind Quotes - Page 20

• It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control. It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.

  Arthur Eddington

  Law, Mind, May

  Arthur Eddington (2012). “The Philosophy of Physical Science: Tarner Lectures (1938)”, p.179, Cambridge University Press

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• Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.

  George Santayana

  God, Space, Heaven

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2011). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, Volume VII, Book One”, p.75, MIT Press

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• Only the human heart can live in present moment awareness. The human mind cannot, because its essential nature is to ponder the past and plan the future. This is why all wise beings encourage us to go beyond the mind into the timeless, boundless transcendence of heart-centered awareness.

  David Simon

  Wise, Heart, Past

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• Problems exist only in the human mind.

  Anthony de Mello

  Mind, Problem, Humans

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.80, Image

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• I think that's the job of each of us - to show our best toys and our best tricks that lift us and our friends to higher and higher levels. There is no end to this bootstrapping process. The future of the human mind and body and the future of humans together is endlessly bright.

  Terence McKenna

  Jobs, Thinking, Mind

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• The beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade.

  Gay Hendricks

  Decision, Mind, Made

  Gay Hendricks (1993). “Learning to Love Yourself”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• And God has set up prayer in such a way that, if you want to explain it away, you can. That's the human mind. God set it up like that for a reason, which is this: God ordained that people should be governed in the end by what they want.

  Dallas Willard

  Prayer, People, Mind

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• All space must be attached to a value, to a public dimension. There is no private space. The only private space that you can imagine is the human mind.

  Paulo Mendes da Rocha

  Creating Value, Space, Mind

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• The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Cynical, Mind, Causes

  "Symposium On Epic Of Thomas Jefferson:Embargo Act Of 1807 & The Quest For Limited Government Over Big Government". Book by Festus Ogunbitan (p. 1498), April 11, 2014.

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• That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in your face. After you got the groove, you were just singing the hooks, because you thought it was cool.

  Wyclef Jean

  Mind, Singing, Hook

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• Happiness is native to the human mind and its physical machine. We think better, perform better, feel better, and are healthier when we are happy.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Feel Better, Thinking, Mind

  Maxwell Maltz (2016). “Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life”, p.70, Penguin

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• Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

  John Steinbeck

  Teacher, Art, Teaching

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.123, Penguin

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• The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, Disease, Want

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.287, Harvard University Press

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• Of all the unexpected qualities of an unexpected universe, the sheer organizing power of animal and plant metabolism is one of the most remarkable. . . . Where it reaches its highest development, in the human mind, we forget it completely. . . . So important does nature regard this unseen combustion . . . that a starving man's brain will be protected to the last while his body is steadily consumed.

  Loren Eiseley

  Nature, Men, Animal

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• Infinity is a way to describe the incomprehensible to the human mind. In a way it notates a mystery. That kind of mystery exists in relationships. A lifetime is not enough to know someone else. It provides a brief glimpse.

  Simon McBurney

  Mind, Theatre, Glimpse

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• The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Appreciate, Mind, Firsts

  Joseph Wood Krutch (2010). “The Desert Year”, p.268, University of Iowa Press

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• The modern technological world appears overwhelming to many people. It drives some to pessimism and despair. It makes others doubt the future of mankind unless we retreat to simpler lives and even to the ways of our ancestors. What these people fail to realize is that we cannot go back to those ways and those days. Furthermore, for all our difficulties, life today is far better for more people and the possibilities for the future can be brighter than ever if we develop not only new knowledge, but a greater faith and confidence in the human mind and spirit.

  Glenn T. Seaborg

  People, Mind, Doubt

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• I'm going to show you all how easy it is to manipulate the human mind once you know how.

  Keith Barry

  Motivation, Inspiration, Mind

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• Public school - where the human mind is drilled and manipulated into submission to various social and moral spooks, and thus fitted to continue our system of exploitation and oppression.

  Emma Goldman

  School, Mind, Moral

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk, Barry Pateman, Jessica M. Moran (2004). “Emma Goldman: Making speech free, 1902-1909”, p.238, Univ of California Press

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• The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.

  Johannes Kepler

  Order, Diversity, Heaven

  TV Mini-Series "Cosmos", 1980.

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• You can mass-produce hardware; you cannot mass-produce software - you cannot mass-produce the human mind.

  Michio Kaku

  Mind, Produce, Mass

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• When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

  James Earl Jones

  Drama, Writing, Black History

  James Earl Jones, Penelope Niven (1993). “James Earl Jones: Voices and Silences”, Scribner Book Company

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• The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mind, Breaking Away, Anticipation

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.3

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• A new painting is a unique event, a birth, which enriches the universe as it is grasped by the human mind, by bringing a new form into it.

  Henri Matisse

  Unique, Mind, Events

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• I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Law, Hands, Mind

  Thomas Jefferson (1998). “Thomas Jefferson: His Words and Vision”, p.18, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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