Quotes by Mind To the primitive mind, everything is either friendly or hostile; but experience has shown that friendliness and hostility are not the conceptions by which the world is to be understood. Bertrand Russell mindfriendlyworld What is matter? Never mind. Bertrand Russell spiritualitymattermind To a modern mind, it is difficult to feel enthusiastic about a virtuous life if nothing is going to be achieved by it. Bertrand Russell modernenthusiasmmind I don't care for the applause one gets by saying what others are thinking; I want actually to change people's thoughts. Power over people's minds is the main personal desire of my life; and this sort of power is not acquired by saying popular things. Bertrand Russell mindpeoplethinking Education, and the life of the mind generally, is a matter in which individual initiative is the chief thing needed; the function of the state should begin and end with insistence on some kind of education, and, if possible, a kind which promotes mental individualism, not a kind which happens to conform to the prejudices of government officials. Bertrand Russell prejudicegovernmentmind He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness of human life, he will realize also that in individual minds is concentrated whatever of value the known universe contains. Bertrand Russell realizingmindworld Through the greatness of the universe, which philosophy contemplates, the mind also is rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good. Bertrand Russell greatnessmindphilosophy As I grew up I became increasingly interested in philosophy, or which [his family] profoundly disapproved. Everytime the subject came up they repeated with unfailing regularity, "What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind." After some fifty or sixty repititions, this remark ceased to amuse me. Bertrand Russell mindfiftyphilosophy In attempting to understand the elements out of which mental phenomena are compounded, it is of the greatest importance to remember that from the protozoa to man there is nowhere a very wide gap either in structure or in behaviour. From this fact it is a highly probable inference that there is also nowhere a very wide mental gap. Bertrand Russell mindmenscience Separation of mind and body, that's been around since the Greeks. Beryl Bender Birch bodygreekmind the sun is as dispassionate as the hand of a man who greets you with his mind on other things. Beryl Markham mindmenhands A person may encircle the globe with mind open only to bodily comfort. Another may live his life on a sixty-foot lot and listen to the voices of the universe. Bess Streeter Aldrich voicefeetmind You have to dream things out. It keeps a kind of an ideal before you. You see it first in your mind and then you set about to try and make it like the ideal. If you want a garden,-why, I guess you've got to dream a garden. Bess Streeter Aldrich gardenminddream I mind my own business. And I don't eat junk food. Besse Cooper junkmy-ownmind Mind share before market share. Beth Comstock sharemind There are probably brilliant people, geniuses, alive today who don't even know how to say, "Hello, how do you do?" because their minds are absorbed with electronic images. Beth Henley live-for-todaymindpeople Sometimes, God may prioritize performing a miracle on our hearts and minds over a miracle concerning our circumstances. Beth Moore miraclemindheart God is the only one who truly gets it because He knows the intimate ways of our minds and hearts. Beth Moore mindheartway God desires to change us from the inside out. Renewing our minds, starving our self-destructive tendencies, and teaching us to form new habits. Beth Moore teachingselfmind For the most part I write very stream of consciousness. I basically need to be recording an entire writing session because it's almost like I black out and just start singing whatever is on my mind and forget it as soon as I stop. Beth Moore blackmindwriting«7172737475767778798081»
