I had rather believe all the fables in the Legends and the Talmud
and the Alcoran, than that this read more

I had rather believe all the fables in the Legends and the Talmud
and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a
mind.

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.

Such as take lodgings in a head
That's to be let unfurnished.

Such as take lodgings in a head
That's to be let unfurnished.

All the things that truly matter beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace arise from beyond the mind.

All the things that truly matter beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace arise from beyond the mind.

How fleet is a glance of the mind!
Compared with the speed of its flight,
The tempest read more

How fleet is a glance of the mind!
Compared with the speed of its flight,
The tempest itself lags behind,
And the swift-winged arrows of light.

Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.

Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much read more

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.

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.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.