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• The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every distinction a distinction of value; hence those fatal critics who can never point out the differing quality of two poets without putting them in an order of preference as if they were candidates for a prize.

  C. S. Lewis

  Order, Two, Mind

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A kernel of truth lurks at the heart of religion, because spiritual experience, ethical behavior, and strong communities are essential for human happiness. And yet our religious traditions are intellectually defunct and politically ruinous. While spiritual experience is clearly a natural propensity of the human mind, we need not believe anything on insufficient evidence to actualize it.

  Sam Harris

  Spiritual, Religious, Strong

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.221, W. W. Norton & Company

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• she was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity; and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized with any change for the better, it required several hours to give sedateness to her spirits, or any degree of tranquillity to her heart.

  Jane Austen

  Heart, Giving, Mind

  Jane Austen (2015). “Sense and Sensibility: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.264, 谷月社

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• This is the most important thing I will ever say to you. The human mind is the ultimate testing device. You can take all the notes you want on the technical data, anything you forget you can look up again, but this must be engraved on your hearts in letters of fire. There is nothing, nothing, nothing, more important to me in the men and women I train than their absolute personal integrity. Whether you function as welders or inspectors, the laws of physics are implacable lie detectors. You may fool men. You will never fool metal. That’s all.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Lying, Integrity, Heart

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• There’s light at the end of the tunnel. The problem is that tunnel is in the back of your mind. And if you don’t go to the back side of your mind you will never see the light at the end of the tunnel. And once you see it, then the task becomes to empower it in yourself and other people. Spread it as a reality. God did not retire to the seventh heaven, God is some kind of lost continent IN the human mind.

  Terence McKenna

  Reality, Tunnels, Light

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• The human mind had a remarkable ability both to discount what it sees and make reality conform to expectation.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Reality, Expectations, Mind

  Cinda Williams Chima (2011). “The Warrior Heir”, p.152, Hachette UK

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• There is so much to the human mind we don't understand. But, you see, if you have faith, you can do anything.

  Rachel Joyce

  Mind, Have Faith, Humans

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• I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas

  John F. Kennedy

  Kindness, Believe, Heart

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• How very important it is to bring about in the human mind the radical revolution. The crisis is a crisis in consciousness, a crisis that cannot anymore accept the old norms, the old patterns, the ancient traditions. Considering what the world is now with all the misery, conflict, destructive brutality, aggression and so on... man is still as he was, is still brutal, violent, aggressive, acquisitive, competitive and has built a society along these lines.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Men, Community, Mind

  "Zeitgeist: Addendum" Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom; for as long as we may think as we will, and speak as we think, the condition of man will proceed in improvement

  Thomas Jefferson

  4th Of July, Men, Thinking

  Thomas Jefferson, Andrew M. Allison (1983). “The Real Thomas Jefferson”, Natl Center for Constitutional

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• On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarrelling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Fighting, Faith Religion

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826”, p.42, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Poetry, Achievement, Mind

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• The human mind is like a fertile ground were seed are continually being planted. The seeds are opinions, ideas, and concepts. You plant a seed, a thought grows, and it grows. The word is like a seed and the human mind is so fertile!

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Ideas, Mind, Opinion

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• Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Bible, Shining, Mind

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• Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.

  John Henry Newman

  Knowledge, Mind, Rewards

  John Henry Newman (1873). “The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: I. In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin ; [II] In Occasional Lectures and Essays Addressed to the Members of the Catholic University”, p.103

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• But the philosophical and scientific process which I call 'secularization' necessarily involves the divesting of spiritual meaning from the world of nature; the desacralization of politics from human affairs; and the deconsecration of values from the human mind and conduct.

  Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

  Spiritual, Philosophical, Mind

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• But there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power.

  Jane Austen

  Mind, Littles, Situation

  Jane Austen (1833). “Northanger Abbey”, p.200

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• Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human mind. There are many who will strive to defend its sanctity and then expect you to be impressed with their efforts.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Ignorance, Effort, Missing

  Brandon Sanderson (2014). “Brandon Sanderson Sampler: The Way of Kings and Mistborn”, p.71, Macmillan

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• I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics would be everybody's easiest course at school and our species would not have taken several millennia to figure out the scientific method.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Taken, School, Thinking

  Neil Degrasse Tyson (2010). “The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist”, p.158, Prometheus Books

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• A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Book, Hands, Mind

  Geraldine Brooks (2008). “People of the Book: A Novel”, p.31, Penguin

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• The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.

  Jules Verne

  Supernatural Beings, Mind, Delight

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)”, p.7, Jules Verne

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• The human mind is a powerful thing in many ways, but in others it's endlessly fragile—it takes only a single moment of pure terror to tear a hole in it, like a finger through a cobweb, leaving you forever just a shadow, a half-person.

  Alexander Gordon Smith

  Powerful, Forever, Leaving

  Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 2: Solitary”, p.50, Faber & Faber

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• This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.

  Neal Stephenson

  Two, Mind, Labyrinth

  Neal Stephenson (2014). “The Baroque Cycle: Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World”, p.214, Harper Collins

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• Psychology was going to be my minor in college. I've always been really interested in the human mind, which is probably why I'm an actor.

  Crystal Reed

  College, Psychology, Mind

  "Crystal Reed Talks TEEN WOLF, The Psychological Aspect of Season 3b, the Relationship Between Allison and Isaac, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 27, 2014.

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• I have shown that those who deplore Artificial Intelligence are also those who deplore the evolutionary accounts of human mentality: if human minds are non-miraculous products of evolution, then they are, in the requisite sense, artifacts, and all their powers must have an ultimately mechanical explanation. We are descended from macros and made of macros, and nothing we can do is beyond the power of huge assemblies of macros.

  Daniel Dennett

  Mind, Evolution, Assembly

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