"In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start."

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"The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

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"There are always a few, Claire, who like being told what to do instead of being required to think. And those are the ones you should fear. That goes equally for humans, I'm afraid. Critical thinking has become a sadly rare skill these days."

Rachel Caine, Canadian Actress

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"As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it."

Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

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"There're times when i suspect that the mind has a mind of its own. it shows us pictures. pictures of the past and the might-one-day-be. this mind's mind exerts its own will, too, and has its own voice."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

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"Oh Christ, he understood more than he wanted to right now. Give me a chance, Louis thought, and I'llunderstand myself right into the nearest mental asylum."

Stephen King, American Author

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"I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

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"But there are weak men who can lift cars if their wives are pinned underneath. The brain, Garraty." McVries's voice had dropped to a hoarse whisper. "It isn't man or God. It's something...in the brain."

Stephen King, American Author

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"How, when and what you perceive - defines your life!"

Ramana Pemmaraju, Indian Physician

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"Mind's ultimate objective is to dominate, be careful where and how you use it!"

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"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."

Age

"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."

People

"Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."

People

"'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories."

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"One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling."

Heart

"A man's Self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house."

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"Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver."

Life

"We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep."

Connection

"The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments."

History

"Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done."

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