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12 quotes

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Topic·The mind✕clear

The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.

Moralia

★ 7.1

Philosophical literature

It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.

58

★ 3.9

Poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

Paradise Lost · 1667

★ 3.9

With me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy.

1881

★ 3.7

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being · 1984

★ 3.7

Speech · Commencement address

The mind is an excellent servant but a terrible master.

David Foster Wallace

2005 Kenyon College commencement address · 2005

★ 3.7

Film · Epic (film) · Historical drama (film) · Epic · Historical drama

You can break a man's skull, you can arrest him, you can throw him into a dungeon. But how do you control what's up here? How do you fight an idea?

Ben-Hur · 1959

★ 3.6

Film · Neo-noir · Thriller (film) · Thriller

I have to believe in a world outside my own mind. I have to believe that my actions still have meaning, even if I can't remember them. I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there. Do I believe the world's still there? Is it still out there? Yeah. We all need mirrors to remind ourselves who we are. I'm no different.

Memento · 2000

★ 3.5

Autobiography and memoir

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

1962

★ 1.9

Philosophical literature

All the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth-in a word, all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world-have not any subsistence without a mind... Their being is to be perceived or known.

George Berkeley

A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge · 1710

★ 1.9

Film · Comedy (film) · Western (film) · Comedy · Western

My mind is a raging torrent flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.

Blazing Saddles · 1974

★ 1.9

Religious literature · Philosophical literature

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.

1900

★ 1.8