6,568 Quotes About Mind

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

When you're dealing with a symbol in a realistic play, it is also a realistic fact. You must expect the audience's mind to work on both levels, symbolically and realistically. But we're trained so much in pure, realistic theater that it's difficult for us to handle things on two levels at the same time.

I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.

At bottom there is but one subject of study: the forms and metamorphoses of mind. All other subjects may be reduced to that; all other studies bring us back to this study.

The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.

Everything which is, is thought, but not conscious and individual thought. The human intelligence is but the consciousness of being. It is what I have formulated before: Everything is a symbol of a symbol, and a symbol of what? of mind.

When everything has its proper place in our minds, we are able to stand in equilibrium with the rest of the world.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents has been always tragic, chiefly as an almost indecent excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards; but also because no mind is so well balanced as to bear the strain of seizing unlimited force without habit or knowledge of it; and finding it disputed with him by hungry packs of wolves and hounds whose lives depend on snatching the carion.

Superstition's not for me. And I'm not much for medicine either. I know my mind and my body better than anyone else.