mind

"It is human, I think, when we encounter the marvelous to try and bring away some of it with us"

"My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively…"

"I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up Microsoft."

"Retraining your mind is the path to peace." While your mind is out for retraining, you get to relax in peace."

"Building a nation calls us to recognize that we must constantly relate to others, rejecting a mindset of hostility in order to adopt one of reciprocal subsidiarity, in a constant effort to do our best…"

"Hope is different from belief. Belief is a function of the mind. It is something which, on the mental level, appears to you to be true, valuable, magnetic, attractive – a set of ideas which together m…"

"Ingels: If Saudi Arabia was without the cloak of American protection, I don't think it would be around."

"The need is not for the creation of new analytical techniques specially designed for the negotiation process, but rather for the creative use of analytical thinking that exploits existing techniques."

"Dicko: Yeah, you're a fantastic lesson in persistence, actually. You came and were rejected, and then came again and have got this far. That was an absolutely fantastic song for you and I think we're …"

"Not only is Homo economicus self-centered, he is a murdering psychopath. However, as with much of neoclassical economic thought, there is an element of circularity here."

"The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say — because they were too obvious."

"...I hold up before myself the images of Dante and Spinoza, who were better at accepting the lot of solitude. Of course, their way of thinking, compared to mine, was one which made solitude bearable..…"

"I blinked and I cured my brain."

"Miletus, southernmost of the Ionian Twelve , was in the sixth century the richest city of the Greek world... Milesian merchants, overflowing with profits, lent money to enterprises far and wide, and t…"

"But no mental action seems necessary or invariable in its character. In whatever manner the mind has reacted under a given sensation, in that manner it is the more likely to react again; were this, ho…"

"If you think this is funny, wait 'till you get into combat. You'll think that's hysterical!"

"Addition is the combination of any arbitrary repetitions of the above-mentioned simplest act into a single act; from it in a similar way arises multiplication. While the performance of these two opera…"

"The re-interpretation and eventually eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the substitution of intelligent and rational thinking for faith in the ce…"

"It closely resembles the situation that exists within a mental institution: in tight quarters, in similar garb, dissimilar minds attempt to build a consensus reality that, with a monumental effort of …"

"And immediately upon presenting himself to the soul, God likewise discloses himself and expands the soul and gives it gifts and consolations which the soul has never before experienced, and which are …"