mind

"We all sing about the things we're thinking; musicals are about expressing those emotions that you can't talk about."

"I thought that health was a manifestation of the way we organize society, and that by asking about health in society, we're asking about society itself."

"There are two-way words, like, it's okay for Curt Gowdy to say, "Roberto Clemente has two balls on him!" But he can't say, "I think he hurt his balls on that play, Tony, don't you?"

"Many don't get the idea of centrism...we do not have to be left or right"

"Whores get bow-legged and bankers get mean, which is strange when you think that that if whores get bow-legged, bankers should get generous, but they never do."

"It may be relevant here to recall gratefully a fraternal correction I was kindly offered by the Archimandrite Ambrosius of the Greek Orthodox Church. After listening to a lecture I delivered at Oxford…"

"There is an intelligent man, who never questions his ideas," said Dorsenne to himself, when the Marquis had left him. "He is like the Socialists. What vigor of mind in that old wornout machine!"

"Belief is not a merely intellectual process, belief is not a mere persuasion of the mind, belief is something that is in our heart, and what you believe, you must do, because belief is from God. It is…"

"There is something inherently stupid about gentrified thinking. It’s a dumbing down and smoothing over of what people are actually like. It’s a social position rooted in received wisdom, with aestheti…"

"The story of your brain on music is the story of an exquisite orchestration of brain regions, involving both the oldest and newest parts of the human brain, and regions as far apart as the cerebellum …"

"Making meaningful distinctions is not hypocrisy, it's called "thinking."

"Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find nothing."

"I had to get them out. I couldn't leave them, could I? I never thought about what might happen to me- I didn't have time to think about it."

"Mental energy is wasted in caste disputes and village factions."

"Every blossom I see reminds me of you"

"If thought exists, I who think and the world about which I think also exist; the one exists but for the other, having no possible separation between them. Therefore, the world and I are both in active…"

"The odour rising from the newly opened depths was intolerable, and at length the quick-eared Hawkins thought he heard a nasty, slopping sound down there. Everyone listened, and everyone was listening …"

"Those who yearn for the end of capitalism should pray for government by men who believe that all positive action is inimical to what they call thoughtfully the fundamental principles of free enterpris…"

"I think women should make a habit of canceling the wars."

"Truth that has been merely learned is like an artificial limb, a false tooth, a waxen nose; at best, like a nose made out of another's flesh; it adheres to us only because it is put on. But truth acqu…"