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I do not believe that gifts, whether of mind or character, can be weighed like sugar and butter

There is within the human heart a quality of intelligence which has been known to surpass that attri...

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…mysticism –perhaps the main aberration of the human mind.

Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is th...

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The human mind is generally farmore eager to praise and dispraise than to describe anddefine.

But then arises the doubt, can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe been developed from a ...

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The human mind is often, and I think it is for the most part, in a state neither of pain nor pleasur...

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Edmund BurkeA Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all i...

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How often one goes to sleep troubled and full of pain, not knowing what causes the travail, and in t...

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Earthly nature may be parsimonious, but the human mind is prodigal, itself an anomaly that in its we...

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Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind," Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to tr...

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We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as th...

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Nothing on earth puts more pressure on the human mind than nothing.

The uncomfortable, as well as the miraculous, fact about the human mind is how it varies from indivi...

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A society is an organic system that develops spontaneously, governed by myriad interactions and adju...

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Steven PinkerThe Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

It used to be obvious that the world was designed by some sort of intelligence. What else could acco...

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The human mind is so limited it can only build an arbitrary heaven — and usually the physical comfor...

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Sylvia PlathThe Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath