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The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the
soul of man.
[Lat., Animi read more
The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the
soul of man.
[Lat., Animi cultus quasi quidam humanitatis cibus.]
If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.
If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
I love my neighbor as myself,
Myself like him too, by his leave,
Nor to his pleasure, read more
I love my neighbor as myself,
Myself like him too, by his leave,
Nor to his pleasure, power or pelf
Came I to crouch, as I conceive.
Dame Nature doubtless has designed
A man the monarch of his mind.
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.
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.
I have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
I have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
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.
The mind forgets but the heart always remembers.
The mind forgets but the heart always remembers.