A person with a mind is bound to be filled with conceptions. These conceptions prevent him from knowing things directly, so a person with a mind shall never really know.

When I wrote ‘Your Republic Is Calling You,’ it was Franz Kafka’s writing that I had most in mind, and James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses.’ Entirely out of the blue, Kafka’s characters receive an order to go...

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

People tell you everything changes when you have a kid, but what nobody says is you don’t mind.

Body and soul can never be marriedI need to become who I already am and will bellow forever at this incongruity which has committed me to hell

Premature satisfaction with half-success is a dream-killer of ambition , nobody should indulge in it.

To the mind, God is a perfect criminal. He has done such a perfect crime by creating this world that mind cannot trace how He did it. That is why the mind always freaks out...

Temptation is stronger in the minds of people who are in doubt. Prayer makes it weaker.

That is the problem with repressed memory and dissociative identity disorder. Your mind represses certain traumas for reasons of pure survival. And then you learn that to survive as an adult, you must uncover the...

I don’t mind the idea of competing for a spot. I don’t feel I’m owed anything by the Yankees. I have an opportunity, that’s all I can really ask for.

If I hadn’t read all of Jane Austen and DH Lawrence, Tolstoy and Proust, as well as the more fun stuff, I wouldn’t know how to break bad news, how to sympathise, how to be...

And after everything been said and done, the mind only believes what our heart feels.

Unfathomable mind: now beacon, now sea.

God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly; first the blow, hours afterwards the bruise.

So-called intellectuals have ego-power; Fools have willpower.

I think people should keep in mind that these are not highly paid people, they’re not like the players or the coaches.

Feed the mind good wisdom, the body good nutrition, the soul good vibes, and the heart good love. Elevation for your situation.

Rather than have it the principal thing in my son’s mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the...

Imagination is the air of mind.

It is true that the subliminal in man is the largest part of his nature and has in it the secret of the unseeen dynamisms which explain his surface activities. But the lower vital subconscious...

There’s no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.

I’ve always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists.

As you think so shall you be! Since you cannot physically experience another person, you can only experience them in your mind. Conclusion: All of the other people in your life are simply thoughts in...

There is a hangover from a defeat like Denmark – ask any player about when they’ve had a bad game, it’s still in there somewhere in the back of your mind.

Maybe, it wasn’t stuck in my mind. Maybe,just maybe, it was stuck in my heart for so long that it grew wings and wanted to fly, but didn’t know how.

I don’t mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else’s object.

By a curious perversity, the human mind refuses to behave itself on the occasions when it should be intensely dramatic. It was so now; the climber suddenly forgot his fears in a smile. The choir...

After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the objects of my fears contained in themselves anything either good or bad, except...

The first effect of the mind growing cultivated is that processes once multiple get to be performed in a single act. Lazarus has called this the progressive ‘condensation’ of thought. … Steps really sink from...

It’s amazing where the paranoid mind can take you.

There’s an apt expression: ‘If you don’t live in your body, where are you going to live?’ But many of us don’t. We tend to get locked into our heads or our imaginations . ....

I wouldn’t mind meeting Eddie Van Halen. That would be great. We need to invite him to a race.

The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren’t there. The answers are there in the morning.

What treaty is it that finally separates those two territories, the hard resolve of our exteriors and the terrible disaster on our insides?

How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves – our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish floating on a vast dark sea of knowing and deciding.

The Chinese are not going to like being scolded, … But if they are of the mind to, they can read it with a positive spin.

A mind may appreciate anyone, but it takes only heart to respect someone and that’s applicable to everyone and so trust, none could ever honestly deny the fact that the heart is better than the...

Creativity flows when the mind is light. Be light and ignite your imagination.

I was trying to really get into the mind-frame of what was going on. They’re wet, they’re cold, they’re coming ashore and there’s no beer for miles.

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

Beauty runs skin deep not on superficial assumptions or criticisms of many people. Live with a beautiful mind and heart. Live with a beautiful soul.

The reassuring smile was now useless. I was plastic. Everything was veiled. Objectivity, facts, hard information–these were things only in the outline stage. There was nothing tying anything together yet, so the mind built up...

I can’t help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it’s psychological truth.

Nothing can give you peace if there is no calmness in your mind.

When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind’s disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation.

Reading was very important; the proper exercise and development of one’s mind was a paramount duty.

Modern man, brought up on Kantian idealism, regards nature as being no more than an outcome of the laws of the mind. Losing all their independence as divine works, things gravitate henceforth round human thought,...

Not too long ago thousands spent their lives as recluses to find spiritual vision in the solitude of nature. Modern man need not become a hermit to achieve this goal, for it is neither ecstasy...

I wouldn’t mind even if it’s the only thing people remember me for. It was a privilege just to be there and to contribute to something so wonderful.

Thoughts do more. Words to much. Actions do much more.