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"May every citizen ... have a proper sense of the Deity upon his mind and an impression of the declaration recorded in the Bible, 'Him that honoreth Me I will honor, but he that despiseth Me shall be lightly esteemed.'"
"Sometimes I wonder if I'm in my right mind. Then it passes off and I'm as intelligent as ever."
"Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind."
"The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought."
"The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions."
"Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind than as if arbitrarily composed by the poet."
"Can you use the rational mind to transcend itself?"
"The thing has already taken form in my mind before I start it. The first attempts are absolutely unbearable. I say this because I want you to know that if you see something worthwhile in what I am doing, it is not by accident but because of real direction and purpose."
"If you actually look at the etymology of the word 'hallucination', what it's come to mean in English is a delusion. But what it really means in the original language is to wander in the mind. That's the meaning of 'hallucination', to wander in the mind."
"The leading edge of reality is mind, and mind is the primary substratum of being."
"It is slowly becoming understood that the modality of being is the modality of mind."
"A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity."
"Most minds are the slaves of external circumstances, and conform to any hand that undertakes to mould them."
"What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known."
"No weakness of the human mind has more frequently incurred animadversion, than the negligence with which men overlook their own faults, however flagrant, and the easiness with which they pardon them, however frequently repeated."
"It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road."
"There should be a word for that brief period just after waking when the mind is full of warm pink nothing. You lie there entirely empty of thought, except for a growing suspicion that heading towards you, like a sockful of damp sand in a nocturnal alleyway, are all the recollections you'd really rather do without, and which amount to the fact that the only mitigating factor in your horrible future is the certainty that it will be quite short."
"There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but when I've a mind - I think I can be even with mankind"
"We want Ollie to go to all the different events and see Republicans and see Bernie Sanders and just kind of experience it and be able to make up his own mind for what he wants, none of his friends know anything about politics. Granted, they're only 9, they don't vote for a while. They just completely don't understand why are all these people coming to New Hampshire, why this is so important."
"My face too blind, my mind too limited, my instincts too narrow. But this intensity, doesn't it mean anything?"
