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“Lots of people today would never consider themselves guilty of idolatry as far as it is spelled out in the Ten Commandments, but by reducing God to some benevolent "man upstairs" whose only attributes are love and tolerance, and who could not care less about sin, they truly have transgressed God's commandment. They have created a god in their mind who does not actually exist and will on the day of judgment, not be able to offer them any help.”

People Men Mind Doe Helping Care Today Able Sin Offers Ten Judgment Tolerance Guilty Attributes Commandments Reducing Miscellaneous Idolatry Benevolent Ten Commandments Upstairs

Author:Charlie Campbell

“The most important part of the practice is for the question to remain alive and for your whole body and mind to become a question. In Zen they say that you have to ask with the pores of your skin and the marrow of your bones. A Zen saying points out: Great questioning, great awakening; little questioning, little awakening; no questioning, no awakening.”

Mind Littles Important Whole Body Asks Practice Alive Skins Bones Awakening Questioning Mind And Body Marrow

Author:Martine Batchelor

“People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.”

Source: The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)

“The education of our people should be a lifelong process by which we continue to feed new vigor into the lifestream of the Nation through intelligent, reasoned decisions. Let us not think of education only in terms of its costs, but rather in terms of the infinite potential of the human mind that can be realized through education. Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our Nation.”

“Rapt into still communion that transcends The imperfect offices of prayer and praise, His mind was a thanksgiving to the power That made him; it was blessedness and love!”

Mind Made Stills Prayer Office And Love Praise Imperfect Communion Blessedness

Book:The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Etc

Source: The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Etc

“In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs-in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and things violently destroyed, the Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time.”

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...

“I have always thought that clarity is a form of courtesy that the philosopher owes; moreover, this discipline of ours considers it more truly a matter of honor today than ever before to be open to all minds ... This is different from the individual sciences which increasingly [interpose] between the treasure of their discoveries and the curiosity of the profane the tremendous dragon of their closed terminology.”

Mind Different Matter Today Form Individual Discipline Honor Discovery Curiosity Philosopher Treasure Clarity Dragons Courtesy Profane Terminology

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“The world's proverb is, "God help the poor, for the rich can help themselves;" but to our mind, it is just the rich who have most need of Heaven's help. Dives in scarlet is worse off than Lazarus in rags, unless Divine love shall uphold him.”

World Needs Mind Helping Heaven Poor Poverty Rich Divine Divine Love Rags Scarlet God Help Help The Poor Lazarus

Book:The Quotable Spurgeon

Source: The Quotable Spurgeon

“A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words; they are afraid of the workings of the human mind.”

Mind Humans Littles Rooms Effort Bars Thrown Human Mind Panic Mice Our Thoughts Frantic Thoughts And Words

Book:War speeches

Source: War speeches

“Small minds can never handle great themes.”

Mind Handle Theme Small Minds

Author:St. Jerome

“The mind which is free from passions is a citadel, for man has nothing more secure to which he can fly for refuge and for the future be inexpugnable . He then who has not seen this is an ignorant man: but he who has seen it and does not fly to this refuge is unhappy.”

Men Mind Doe Passion Unhappy Ignorant Secure Refuge Citadels

Book:Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

“It is a base thing for the countenance to be obedient and to regulate and compose itself as the mind commands, and for the mind not to be regulated and composed by itself.”

Mind Command Obedient Countenance

Book:Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

“Have I done something for the general interest? Well then I have had my reward. Let this always be present to thy mind, and never stop doing such good.”

Mind Wells Done Interest Rewards

Book:Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

“In the case of most pains let this remark of Epicurus aid thee, that the pain is neither intolerable nor everlasting, if thou bear in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination.”

Ifs Mind Pain Imagination Cases Bears Limits Aids Thee Everlasting Remarks

Book:Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

“From Plato: the man who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all time and of all substance, dost thou suppose it possible for him to think that human life is anything great? It is not possible, he said. Such a man then will think that death also is no evil.”

Thinking Men Mind Humans Said Life Is Evil Views He Man All Time Substance Human Life Plato

Book:Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

“Some people pretend they never were in love and never wrote poetry; two weaknesses which they dare not own -- one of the heart, the other of the mind.”

People Mind Heart Two Poetry Weakness Dare

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“When, after having read a work, loftier thoughts arise in your mind and noble and heartfelt feelings animate you, do not look for any other rule to judge it by; it is fine and written in a masterly manner.”

Mind Looks Feelings Reading Written Judging Fine Noble Arise Heartfelt

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of one's knowledge, and what is to be their end? What can be more deeply disheartening than to wonder whether one's soul is, perhaps, a material thing, like a stone or a reptile, corruptible like these base creatures? Is there not more strength and greatness of mind in admitting the idea of a being superior to all other beings, who has made them all and to whom all owe their existence; of a being supremely perfect, who is pure, who had no beginning and can have no ending, of whom our soul is the image and, so to speak, a portion, being a spiritual and immortal thing?”

“We need not envy certain people their great wealth; they acquired it at a heavy cost, which would not suit us; they staked their rest, their health, their honour and their conscience to acquire it, the price is too high, and there is nothing to be gained by such a bargain.”

Men Mind Made Certain Given Wealth Class Conscience Paid Dear Envy Riches Enormous Suits Peace Of Mind Honour Bargains

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“A man of variable mind is not one man, but several men in one; he multiplies himself as often as he changes his taste and manners; he is not this minute what he was the last, and will not be the next what he is now; he is his own successor.”

Men Mind Lasts Next Minutes Taste Manners One Man Variables Successors

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“I call worldly or earthly those whose minds and hearts are fixed on a tiny portion of this world they live in, which is our earth; who respect and love nothing beyond it: people as limited as what they call their property or their estate, which can be measured, whose acres can be counted, whose boundaries can be shown.”

Men Mind Wells Heart Earth Values Universe Known Limits And Love Spots Fixed Estates Well Known Worldly Heart And Mind Small Parts Acres Coarse

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“A great mind is above insults, injustice, grief, and raillery, and would be invulnerable were it not open to compassion.”

Mind Would Be Grief Compassion Injustice Insult Great Minds

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“A mind that is disciplined, controlled, is free within its own pattern; but that is not freedom. The end of discipline is conformity; its path leads to the known, and the known is never the free.”

Mind Ends Known Path Discipline Patterns Conformity Controlled

Book:Commentaries on Living

Source: Commentaries on Living

“You can look only when the mind is completely quiet.”

Mind Looks Quiet

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is no resistance.”

Mind Action Resistance Positively

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Learning implies a mind that doesn't know.”

Knows Mind

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“How is the mind which functions on knowledge how is the brain which is recording all the time to end, to see the importance of recording and not let it move in any other direction? Very simply: you insult me, you hurt me, by word, gesture, by an actual act; that leaves a mark on the brain which is memory. That memory is knowledge, that knowledge is going to interfere in my meeting you next time obviously.”

Mind Ends Moving Next Hurt Memories Brain Function Importance Mark Meetings Insult Gestures Interfere Next Time Hurt Me You Hurt Me Simply You

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“What is important in meditation is the quality of the mind and the heart.It is not what you achieve, or what you say you attain, but rather the quality of a mind that is innocent and vulnerable.”

Mind Heart Important Quality Meditation Achieve Innocent Vulnerable

Book:The Meditative Mind

Source: The Meditative Mind

“To die every day to every problem, every pleasure, and not carry over any problem at all; so the mind remains tremendously attentive, active, clear.”

Mind Problem Dies Pleasure Clear Remains Active

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline?”

Mind Stills Discipline Compulsion Coercion

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Can the mind resolve a psychological problem immediately?”

Mind Problem Psychological Resolve Psychological Problems

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Meditation is not a process of learning how to meditate; it is the very inquiry into what is meditation. To inquire into what is meditation, the mind must free itself from what it has learnt about meditation, and the freeing of the mind from what it has learnt is the beginning of meditation.”

Mind Process Meditation Inquiry

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“The will ... is the driving force of the mind. If it's injured, the mind falls to pieces.”

Ifs Mind Fall Force Pieces Driving Injured Driving Force

Book:Strindberg, Five Plays

Source: Strindberg, Five Plays

“The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.”

Mind Hours Knowing Rights Characteristics Assurance Corny Commonplace

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“We'll show you that you can build a mind from many little parts, each mindless by itself.”

Mind Littles Shows Mindless

Author:Marvin Minsky

“The nature of mind: much of its power seems to stem from just the messy ways its agents cross-connect. ...it's only what we must expect from evolution's countless tricks.”

Way Mind Seems Evolution Crosses Tricks Agents Stem Messy

Book:Society Of Mind

Source: Society Of Mind

“Good theories of the mind must span at least three different scales of time: slow, for the billions of years in which our brains have survivied; fast, for the fleeting weeks and months of childhood; and in between, the centuries of growth of our ideas through history.”

Years Mind Ideas Different Three Growth Brain Week Childhood Century Theory Months Billions Scales Fleeting

Author:Marvin Minsky

“Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.”

Mind Reason Enough Strong Masters Strong Enough Not Strong Man And Superman Reasonable Man Not Strong Enough

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.”

Ifs Mind Problem Would Be Political Greater Feet Universal Remains Pyramids Suffrage Finality Universal Suffrage

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission. It roots in a bare wisdom that exists in senses more than mind, a wisdom that, in primitive form, evolved the mind which so often overlooks it.”

Needs Mind Persons Form Values Individual Known Roots Logic Missions Senses Primitive

Book:Autobiography of values

Source: Autobiography of values

“I can't get used to the ease with which one covers the world today. It's no longer an effort--Pole--equator--oceans--continents--it's just a question of which way you point the nose of your plane. The pure joy of flight as an art has given way to the pure efficiency of flight as a science.... Science is insulating man from life -- separating his mind from his senses. The worst of it is that it soon anaesthetizes his senses so that he doesn't know what he's missing.”