I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that read more

I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.

The march of the human mind is slow.

The march of the human mind is slow.

Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, who read more

Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, who can't, and those in cemeteries.

The mind forgets but the heart always remembers.

The mind forgets but the heart always remembers.

The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.

The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.

We are born into this world unarmed---our mind is our only weapon.

We are born into this world unarmed---our mind is our only weapon.

Finally, by ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another,
love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
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Finally, by ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another,
love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but
contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that
ye should inherit a blessing.

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those
of the body.
[Lat., Morbi perniciores read more

The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those
of the body.
[Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis.]