"The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind."
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"I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another."
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"Why should I clutter my mind with general information when I have men around me who can supply any knowledge I need?"
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"The depression was just a state of mind. It is over for everyone who has changed his state of mind."
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"The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those that exist in their own minds."
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"Instant enlightenment. A quintessential modernism, culture and religion accommodated to the age of fast food and bumper stickers. But psyche and spirit are not so exempt from the natural domain that they can simply produce self-change instantaneously, on demand. Wisdom precipitates through a notoriously slow apparatus of retorts and flasks, and it has to find receptive ground only in a properly seasoned mind."
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"The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life - that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience."
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"...The peculiar air of Oxford-the air of liberty to care for the things of the mind assured and secured by machinery which is in itself a satisfaction to sense."
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"The only peace, the only security, is in fulfillment."
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"We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only."
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"To give us room to explore the varieties of mind and body into which our genome can evolve, one planet is not enough."
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"All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?'"
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"I'm not always successful. But I try to treat the people the way I want to be treated. I really try to keep that in mind, but it doesn't always work."
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"The earliest sensation at the onset of illness, often preceding the recognition of identifiable symptoms, is apprehension. Something has gone wrong, and a glimpse of mortality shifts somewhere deep in the mind. It is the most ancient of our fears."
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"There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds."
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"It is curious for one who studies the action and reaction of national literature on each other, to see the humor of Swift and Sterne and Fielding, after filtering through Richter, reappear in Carlyle with a tinge of Germanism that makes it novel, alien, or even displeasing, as the case may be, to the English mind."
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"To be infatuated with the power of one's own intellect is an accident which seldom happens but to those who are remarkable for the want of intellectual power. Whenever Nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit."
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"Strong currents drag many stones and bushes along with them, strong intellects many dense and muddled minds."
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"It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the more subtle minds. It seems that the hundred-times-refuted theory of the "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it."
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"It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body"
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