Mind - Quotes
Man`s mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimension.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
The only angels we need invoke are those of our better nature: reason, honesty, and love. The only demons we must fear are those that lurk inside every human mind: ignorance, hatred, greed, and faith, which is surely the devil's masterpiece.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is good, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but nevertheless dazzling, passionate, and eternal form.
What the heart knows, the mind has forgotten, and what the heart knows is the truth.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
An open mind is like a fortress with its gates unbarred and unguarded.
Pain is an illusion of the senses, despair an illusion of the mind.