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«The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.»
«The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.»
«The human mind shows an urge to capture into fixed forms through unreal assumptions, that is, fictions, that which is chaotic, always in flux, and incomprehensible. Serving this urge, the child quite generally uses a scheme in order to act and to fin»
«The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish»
Author: Evelyn Waugh | About: Mind | Keywords: cloddish, inventing
«The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals»
Author: Madame de Stael | About: Mind | Keywords: spiral, spiraling, spirals
«The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me»
Author: W. H. Auden (Dramatist, Editor, Poet) | About: Mind, Self-love | Keywords: The Image
«The human mind has first to construct forms, independently, before we can find them in things.»
«The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.»
«The human mind is our fundamental resource.»
«The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do»