"In every cry of every man, In every infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear."
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"The chief imagination of Christendom, Dante Alighieri, so utterly found himself That he has made that hollow face of his More plain to the mind's eye than any face But that of Christ."
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"I summon to the winding ancient stair; Set all your mind upon the steep ascent"
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"Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?"
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"If you've made up your mind you can do something, you're absolutely RIGHT."
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"The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder."
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"The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart."
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"The beauty of the living world I was trying to save has always been uppermost in my mind - that, and anger at the senseless, brutish things that were being done. . . . Now I can believe I have at least helped a little."
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"When the creations of a genius collide with the mind of a layman, and produce an empty sound, there is little doubt as to which is at fault."
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"I have an aim - I have a clear aim in my mind, and the aim is that I do not like what I see in Indian politics; it is something that is inside my heart."
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"As it is with the love of the body, so with the friendship of the mind, the full is only reached by admittance to the most retired places."
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"Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind."
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"Mind is but a poor reflection of the radiant Heart."
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"It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future...And this is his salvation in the most difficult moments of his existence, although he sometimes has to force his mind to the task."
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"I think that's the job of each of us - to show our best toys and our best tricks that lift us and our friends to higher and higher levels. There is no end to this bootstrapping process. The future of the human mind and body and the future of humans together is endlessly bright."
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"Modernity is a desert, and we are jungle monkeys. And so new evolutionary selective pressures are coming to bear upon the human situation, new ideas are coming to the fore. Psilocybin is a selective filter for this. The wish to go to space is a selective filter for this. Just the wish to know your own mind is a selective filter for this."
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"Age steals away all things, even the mind."
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"Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can."
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"Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state."
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"It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see."
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