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«The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.»
«Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.»
Author: Gaston Bachelard
(Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Mind,
Reverie,
Soul
| Keywords:
plenitude, reverie, reveries, vacuum
«Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.»
«Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds»
«Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.»
«Shakespeare knew the human mind, and its most minute and intimate workings, and he never introduces a word, or a thought, in vain or out of place; if we do not understand him, it is our own fault»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Knowledge,
Mind,
Thought,
Understanding,
Words
| Keywords:
human mind, intimate, introduces, introducing, in vain, out of place, Shakespeare, vain, workings
«Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
| About:
Mind
| Keywords:
disadvantage, disadvantaged, irresistible, solitary, springing
«Revelation, indeed, as such had no influence on my mind»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Influence,
Mind
«Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Mind
| Keywords:
concerned, extraordinary, minds, ordinary
«That thirst (for applause) if the last infirmity of noble minds, is also the first infirmity of weak ones»
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