The mind will play curious tricks when it is in a tight corner.
The mind that has no fixed goal loses itself; for, as they say, to be everywhere is to be nowhere.[L’ame qui n’a point de but estably, elle se perd: Car comme on dit, c’est n’estre en aucun lieu, que d’estre par tout.]
The mind is always the dupe of the heart.[L’esprit est toujours la dupe du coeur.]
The man who really merits pity is the man who has been down from the start, and faces poverty with a blank, resourceless mind.
The kind of thoughts you frequently have will make your mind of the same kind, for your mind is dyed by your thoughts.[Οἷα ἂν πολλάκις φαντασθῇς, τοιαύτη σοι ἔσται ἡ διάνοια˙ βάπτεται γὰρ ὑπὸ τῶν φαντασιῶν ἡ ψυχή.]
The idea that the mind is international and supra-national, that it ought to serve not war and annihilation, but peace and reconciliation.
The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.[L’esprit humain se plaît à ces conceptions grandioses d’êtres surnaturels.]
The human brain is finite – no more than a sponge of tissue inside a cage of bone – but the mind within the brain is infinite. Its storage capacity is colossal, its imaginative reach beyond our ability to comprehend. I think when a man or woman dies, a whole world falls to ruin – the world that person knew and believed in. Think of that, kiddo – billions of people on earth, and each one of those billions with a world inside. The earth their minds have conceived.
The free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.
The blind cosmos grinds aimlessly on from nothing to something and from something back to nothing again, neither heeding nor knowing the wishes or existence of the minds that flicker for a second now and then in the darkness.
