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"I do not at all have the mind of a bully... in my mind bullies are intolerant of contrary opinion, domineering and rather cowardly. I would hope that none of those terms could be fairly used in describing me."
"what I think separates me from most philosophers probably is that I'm a bluesman in the life of the mind, I'm a jazzman in the world of ideas."
"The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any other part. Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man’s mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others."
"It's not that I don't want to be a beauty, that I don't yearn to be dripping with glamour. It's just that I can't see how any woman can find time to do to herself all the things that must apparently be done to make herself beautiful and, having once done them, how anyone without the strength of mind of a foreign missionary can keep up such a regime."
"I don't mind telling a dark side."
"A logical theory may be tested by its capacity for dealing with puzzles, and it is a wholesome plan, in thinking about logic, to stock the mind with as many puzzles as possible, since these serve much the same purpose as is served by experiments in physical science."
"To change your mind under the direction of the wisdom of the heart is a brush stroke on the masterpiece you are delivering to the world."
"When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body."
"Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree."
"It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false."
"There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth."
"Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too."
"People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others."
"Got no religion. Tried a bunch of different religions. The churches are divided. Can't make up their minds and neither can I."
"Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul [Minnesota] in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry that spoke my own language."
"I ain't saying you treated me unkind you could've done better, but I don't mind. You just kinda wasted my precious time. But don't think twice, it's alright."
"Whatever colors you have in your mind, I'll show them to you and you'll see them shine."
"As a writer, I can live somewhat independently, occupying nooks and crannies and finding meaning there. I can even live in my mind a good portion of most days."
"There is no man so blind as one who has made up his mind."
"Flood your mind continually with pictures of the health, happiness, and prosperity that you desire."
