“I suspect we have internal senses. The mind's eye since Shakespeare's time has been proverbial; and we have also a mind's ear. To say nothing of dreams, one certainly can listen to one's own thoughts, and hear them, or believe that one hears them: the strongest argument adducible in favour of our hearing any thing.” MindBelieveHas BeensDreamEyeArgumentEarsHearingIntuitionSensesInternalsSuspectsStrongestFavourProverbial Author:Augustus William Hare
“Temporary madness may be necessary in some cases, to cleanse and renovate the mind; just as a fit of illness is to carry off the humours of the body.” MindMayBodyCasesHumourFitMadnessIllnessTemporarySanityMadness And Sanity Book:Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series Source: Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series
“The grand difficulty is to feel the reality of both worlds, so as to give each its due place in our thoughts and feelings, to keep our mind's eye and our heart's eye ever fixed on the land of promise, without looking away from the road along which we are to travel toward it.” WorldGivingFeelsMindHeartFeelingsRealityEyeLandPromiseFutureDifficultyDuesFixedOur ThoughtsThoughts And FeelingsLooking Away Author:Augustus William Hare
“The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing; if ill-packed, next to nothing.” IfsMindWellsNextIllTrunksPower Of The Mind Book:Guesses at Truth Source: Guesses at Truth
“The thoughtful excitement of lonely rambles, of gardening, and of other like occupations, where the mind has leisure to must during the healthful activity of the body, with the fresh and wakeful breezes blowing round it.” ThinkingMindBodyActivityLonelyRoundsExcitementThoughtfulOccupationLeisureGardeningBreeze Author:Augustus William Hare
“Few minds are sunlike, sources of light in themselves and to others: many more are moons that shine with a borrowed radiance. One may easily distinguish the two: the former are always full; the latter only now and then, when their suns are shining full upon them.” MindMayTwoLightSunSourceMoonShiningFormerLatterNow And ThenBorrowedRadiance Book:Guesses at Truth Source: Guesses at Truth
“Some minds are made of blotting-paper: you can write nothing on them distinctly. They swallow the ink, and you find a large spot.” WritingMindMadePaperSpotsInk Book:Guesses at Truth Source: Guesses at Truth